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verb

Thwart v. t. (past & past part. thwarted; pres. part. thwarting)

To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air. (Obs.) "Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night."

To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. "If crooked fortune had not thwarted me." "The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other."

Thwart v. i.

To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner. (R.)

Hence, to be in opposition; to clash. (R.) "Any proposition... that shall at all thwart with internal oracles."

noun

Thwart n. (Naut.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.

adjective

Thwart adj.

Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique. "Moved contrary with thwart obliquities."

Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained. (Obs.)

adverb

Thwart adv. Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart. (Obs.)

preposition

Thwart prep. Across; athwart.

Thwart ships. See Athwart ships, under Athwart.

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"Thwart" Quotes from Famous Books

... morning that the Mary of Argyle put to sea on her trial trip, her owner was on board; but he merely sat on a thwart. It was Rob who was at the tiller; Rob wanted to try the boat; the owner wanted to observe the crew. And first of all she sailed lightly out of the harbour, with the wind on her beam; then outside, the breeze being ...

— The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols • William Black

... steer his best and to keep his boat clear of the steamer's sides, and of her deadly propeller revolving astern, while the bowman pays out his towing-line, and others see it is all clear, and another takes a turn of it round a thwart. ...

— Heroes of the Goodwin Sands • Thomas Stanley Treanor

... ruffian" judges were only laughed at by this Southern Governor. One year before, these conspirators had assembled an army to drive out the Free State settlers, and to give the Territory into the hands of the South; but Gov. Geary had interfered to thwart their purpose, and, what was worse, a majority of the leaders of that army, men of note along the Missouri border, had declared themselves in sympathy with Mr. Geary. Then they had asked for a Southern Governor, for would not he be true to the South? And now even ...

— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler

... counteracting opposition is springing from the home loving, the upright and pure-minded citizens of our great cities? What concerted action is the church with her tens of thousands of communicants putting forth? It would be an easy matter to thwart the allied power of rum, if a few persons in every church and every society for ethical improvement were ablaze with moral enthusiasm, and wise enough to adopt lines of action similar to those successfully carried out by the liquor interest. For example: Suppose in every ...

— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various

... the sons of men born and trained here might ultimately take the places that had been held by the angels who had been cast out on account of their sin. But Satan, seeing this fair and beautiful earth, this wondrous handiwork of God, determined, if possible, to thwart and defeat the purposes of the Almighty. He therefore invades this beautiful world. He finds Adam and Eve in their condition of perfect felicity, innocent, but inexperienced; and they fall a ready ...

— Our Unitarian Gospel • Minot Savage

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