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aslant

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From Middle English aslant (at an angle, in a curve; from the side, deviously), from on slante; equivalent to a- +‎ slant.

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aslant

  1. (archaic, literary) Slanting.
    Synonyms: askew, aslope, atilt, diagonal, oblique, slanted; nonorthogonal, unperpendicular
    Antonyms: orthogonal, perpendicular, nonoblique
    Near-synonym: askance

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aslant

  1. (archaic, literary) At a slant.
    Synonyms: aslope, atilt, diagonally, obliquely

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aslant

  1. (archaic, literary) Diagonally over or across.
    Synonyms: aslope, athwart, atilt
    • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
      There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
      That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
    • 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Zapolya[4], London: Rest Fenner, published 1817, Scene 1, p. 45:
      I oft have passed your cottage, and still prais’d
      Its beauty, and that trim orchard-plot, whose blossoms
      The gusts of April shower’d aslant its thatch.
    • 1979, Patrick White, The Twyborn Affair[5], Penguin, published 1981, Part 2, p. 209:
      But aslant this particular glass reclined a single, white, wintry rose, possibly the last rose ever, its invalid complexion infused with a delicate transcendent green.

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