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Meanings of sunwise in English

Opposite of widdershins.

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Examples for "sunward"
1
They're all moving sunward pretty fast, but they're not accelerating or evading.
Caliban's War
2
It was still far beyond Mars, sweeping sunward along its immensely elongated orbit.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
3
Suddenly something darted by me flying sunward; then another and another.
Other Worlds / Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in t...
4
These foothills were, in fact, enormous glaciers thrust out toward the sunward hemisphere.
A Columbus of Space
5
I am behind a rock forty yards to sunward of the second crater.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
1
The couples then link hands and circle deosil to the following words:
Lid Off the Cauldron
2
One by one the witches approach the High Priestess, proceeding deosil.
Lid Off the Cauldron
3
Now make three deosil circles with your hand over the salt.
Witch School's First Degree
4
Then make three deosil circles over the salt and bless it.
Witch School's First Degree
5
Now make three deosil (clockwise) circles with your hand over the water.
Witch School's First Degree
1
In a clockwise direction, move about the ritual area in a circle.
Wicca Spellcraft For Men
2
He tried it in the clockwise direction, but that, too, was fruitless.
Boy’s Life
3
After leaving Weymouth, the crew turned right and headed off in an clockwise direction.
The Guardian
4
Stir rapidly in a clockwise direction to form thin shreds; gently to form long streams.
The everything chinese cookbook: from wonton soup to sweet and s...
5
Swimming in a clockwise direction, they hope to swim up to 45 miles a day.
The Irish Times
Usage of sunwise in English
1
The circuit used by the decorator of this box is dextral or sunwise.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 / Seventeenth Annual...
2
In rubbing for rheumatism, etc., rub from left to right (sunwise).
Current Superstitions / Collected from the Oral Tradition of Eng...
3
They are lighted at the burning cauldron and they dance round in the 'sunwise' direction, i.e.
Witchcraft Today
4
Blow three times, and rub sunwise three times.
Current Superstitions / Collected from the Oral Tradition of Eng...
5
He pointed to the tower to the left of the gate they were approaching, then in a sunwise circle.
The black prism
6
She may also dance sunwise around the circle, from the quarter corresponding to death, to that corresponding with birth, and, back again.
Drawing Down the Moon
7
The dance is enacted by dragging the left (lame foot) behind the right, and moving slowly, deosil or sunwise, round the circle.
Lid Off the Cauldron
Sunwise through the time