| 释义 |
† way-maker Obs.
1. One who makes or mends roads.
1483Cath. Angl. 405/2 A Way maker or mender, portitor. 1609in F. Devon Issues Exch., Jas. I (1836) 95 To Thomas Norton, his Majesty's way-maker, appointed to oversee the performance of the mending of the highways..{pstlg}29. 10s.
2. A person or thing that prepares the way for another; a forerunner, precursor; a prelude (to).
1574T. Newton Health Mag. T j b, Sleepe at noone..is a foremessanger or way-maker to Feuers, Apostumations, and Abscesses. c1614Sir C. Cornwallis in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 139 Which match, I conceived, had been a preparation, and a way-maker to this other. 1634Bp. Hall Contempl., N.T. iv. iv. 117 What was his [John Baptist's] errand, but to be the way-maker unto Christ? 1640Bastwick Ld. Bishops viii. I j, Now the spirit of Prelacie was the very beginning of the Apostacie, which was Antichrists way⁓maker. |