aright
part of speech
adverb (old use)
meaning for a pupil
Aright means correctly or rightly, with no mistake. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It is an old word for rightly, as when God teaches a farmer well or a person sets his heart properly. In the primary lessons: in old tales someone "hears aright" or "guesses aright", meaning they got the right answer or heard the right words
examples
- For He doth instruct him aright; his God doth teach him. (Prophets ISA.28.26, JPS 1917) tree →
- If thou set thy heart aright, and stretch out thy hands toward Him — (Writings JOB.11.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright; but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. (Writings PRO.15.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- He guessed the answer aright. tree →
- She thought she had not heard aright. tree →
- If you add the numbers aright, you will get the right total. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
- For He doth instruct him aright; his God doth teach him.
- The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright; but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
- If thou set thy heart aright, and stretch out thy hands toward Him —
- That He would set aright a man contending with God, as a son of man setteth aright his neighbour!
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «aright» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.