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Definition: Upwards of
Upward
\Up"ward\, Upwards
\Up"wards\, adv. [AS. upweardes. See
Up-, and
-wards.]
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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.
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Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking
upward, we speak and prevail. --Hooker.
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2. In the upper parts; above.
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Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man,
And down ward fish. --Milton.
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3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
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From twenty years old and upward. --Num. i. 3.
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Upward of, or
Upwards of, more than; above.
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I have been your wife in this obedience
Upward of twenty years. --Shak.
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