adv. [f. AVERSE a. + -LY2.]

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  1.  In the reverse or opposite direction.

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1651.  Davenant, Gondibert, II. iv. lxii. Hubert his arm westward aversely stretched.

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1823.  Lamb, Elia, Ser. I. xii. (1865), 100. My face turned to the window aversely from the bed.

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  b.  Backwardly.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 137. It is emitted aversly or backward. Ibid., 261. Clunatim, or aversly. Ibid. (1658), Hydriot., 34. They kindled the pyre aversly, or turning their face from it.

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  2.  With aversion or dislike; repugnantly.

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1643.  Milton, Divorce, iii. Wks. (1851), 26. All the faculties … appeare to be so ill and so aversly met.

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1691.  Baxter, Nat. Churches, x. 41. Aversly suspicious of National Churches.

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