LekhoriLekhoriFrom side to side, often in an oblique manner; across or over.
Above, the stars appeared to move slowly athwart.
Across the path of something, so as to impede progress.
a fleet standing athwart our course
From Late Middle English athwert, athirt, from a- (prefix meaning ‘in the direction of, toward’) + thwert (“crosswise; (cooking) across the grain”, adverb). Thwert is derived from thwert (“crosswise, ...
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Across the course or path of, so as to meet; hence (figuratively), to the attention of.
For here our ſouls hath but one eye (the Apoſtle ſaith, vve knovv in part) be not proud if that chance to come athvvart thy ſeeing ſide, vvhich meets with the blind ſide of another.
Across the course or path of, so as to oppose.
VVhence and vvhat art thou, execrable ſhape, / That dar'ſt, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miſcreated Front athvvart my vvay / To yonder Gates?