aright

adv

1. (not-comparable)Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.

   “it is not easie we should so often settle our minds in so regular, so reformed, and so devout a seat, where indeed it ought to be, to pray aright and effectually: otherwise our praiers are not only vaine and unprofitable, but vicious.”

   “Hear him not; call on the names of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart. I will hover near and direct the steel aright.”

   “The great service which he rendered to science was that he put the right questions ; it was not that he answered them aright.”

   “"Well, gentlemen, have I read you the riddle aright, or is there any point which you would query?"”

2. (archaic, not-comparable)To or on the right-hand side.

   “Once more away! and now The long descent is seen, A long, long, narrow path. Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow, Aleft the giddy precipice.”

verb

1. (transitive)To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.

   “But, from working with those who have felt exiled and damned, excoriated and benumbed, and yet have made it back to useful and creative life again, I know there are more sure, albeit intense, ways to aright oneself.”