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De - Pt| English Dictionary: upwards of | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Upward \Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adv. [AS. upweardes. See {Up-}, and {-wards}.] 1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. --I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. --Hooker. 2. In the upper parts; above. Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. --Milton. 3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over. From twenty years old and upward. --Num. i. 3. {Upward of}, [or] {Upwards of}, more than; above. I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years. --Shak. | |
