You with strict discipline instructed right.
Roscommon.
6. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly;
exactly; as, to tell a story right. "Right at mine own cost." Chaucer.
Right as it were a steed of Lumbardye.
Chaucer.
His wounds so smarted that he slept right naught.
Fairfax.
7. In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly;
as, right humble; right noble; right valiant. "He was not right fat".
Chaucer.
For which I should be right sorry.
Tyndale.
[I] return those duties back as are right fit.
Shak.
In this sense now chiefly prefixed to titles; as, right honorable;
right reverend.
Right honorable, a title given in England to peers and peeresses, to
the eldest sons and all daughters of such peers as have rank above
viscounts, and to all privy councilors; also, to certain civic
officers, as the lord mayor of London, of York, and of Dublin.
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Right is used in composition with other adverbs, as upright, downright,
forthright, etc.
Right along, without cessation; continuously; as, to work right along
for several hours. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Right away, or Right off, at once;
straightway; without delay. [Colloq. U.S.] "We will . . . shut
ourselves up in the office and do the work right off." D. Webster.
Right (?), n. [AS. right. See Right, a.] 1. That which is right or
correct. Specifically: (a) The straight course; adherence to duty;
obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, --
the opposite of moral wrong. (b) A true statement; freedom from error
of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.
Seldom your opinions err; Your eyes are always in the right.
Prior.
(c) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice;
uprightness; integrity.
Long love to her has borne the faithful knight, And well deserved,
had fortune done him right.
Dryden.
2. That to which one has a just claim. Specifically: (a) That which one
has a natural claim to exact.
There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties.
Coleridge.
(b) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal
power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal. (c)
That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess
or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property;
title; claim; interest; ownership.
Born free, he sought his right.
Dryden.
Hast thou not right to all created things?
Milton.
Men have no right to what is not reasonable.
Burke.
(d) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.