Definitions
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- noun Motion towards the right, in the direction of the hands of a clock or of the apparent motion of the sun; a turning in this direction.
- adverb Righthandwise;
clockwise ;sunwise . - interjection A
deprecation meaning May it go right, said to someone who sneezes or swallows something awry.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Round every house the hide-clad man used to run thrice deiseal, that is, according to the course of the sun, so as to keep the house on his right hand; while the others pursued him, beating the hide with their staves and thereby making a loud noise like the beating of a drum.
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Round every house the hide-clad man used to run thrice deiseal, that is, according to the course of the sun, so as to keep the house on his right hand; while the others pursued him, beating the hide with their staves and thereby making a loud noise like the beating of a drum.
Chapter 54. Types of Animal Sacrament. § 2. Processions with Sacred Animals 1922
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Round every house the hide-clad man used to run thrice deiseal, that is, according to the course of the sun, so as to keep the house on his right hand; while the others pursued him, beating the hide with their staves and thereby making a loud noise like the beating of a drum.
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Scotland invariably went _deiseal_, or to the right, at every meeting of importance.
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The disorderly procession went three times _deiseal_ (according to the course of the sun) round each house in the village, striking the walls and shouting on coming to a door a rhyme demanding admission.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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Round every house the hide-clad man used to run thrice _deiseal, _ that is, according to the course of the sun, so as to keep the house on his right hand; while the others pursued him, beating the hide with their staves and thereby making a loud noise like the beating of a drum.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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January 26, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word deiseal
"Her left hand is studded by four silverset cabochons of greenstone, and there's a star sapphire with three dolphins circling it deiseal in gold on her right hand."
The Bone People by Keri Hulme, p 299
February 10, 2017