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Definition of Deasil

1. clockwise [adv] - See also: clockwise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deasil

Literary usage of Deasil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"Martin in his " Description of the Western Islands of Scotland" (1703) mentions the common practice of carrying fires deasil or sunwise ..."

2. The Mediaeval Stage by Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1903)
"The original sense is simply ' backwards,' and the equivalence with deasil not earlier than the seventeenth century. A folk-etymology from shine may account ..."

3. The History of Magic by Joseph Ennemoser, Mary Botham Howitt (1854)
"The deasil of the English is celebrated from antiquity. ... The deasil was a circle in which a person with certain solemn ceremonies ran three times round, ..."

4. The Early Races of Scotland and Their Monuments by Forbes Leslie (1866)
"Every one in their approach advanced deasil (sunwise), in which direction ... All these walked or were carried three times deasil (sunwise) round the well. ..."

5. Medii ævi Kalendarium: Or Dates, Charters, and Customs of the Middle Ages by Robert Thomas Hampson (1841)
"r or Des, the right hand, and Syl, the sun. The term deasil denotes a motion from East to West, or according to the apparent course of the ..."

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