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ˈwayside
a. The side of a road or path, the land bordering either side of the way. Phr. to fall by the wayside [after Luke viii. 5: see quot. 1526], to fail to stay the course, to drop out.
a1400Morte Arth. 1713 They are enbuschede one blonkkes, with baners displayede, In ȝone bechene wode appone the waye sydes. 1526Tindale Luke viii. 5 As he sowed some fell by the waye syde. 1550Crowley Epigr. 221 By the waye syde, hym chaunced to se A pore manne that craued of hym for charitie. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 19 Among the Corn by the way-sides as we went. 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 498 This species is very frequent with us especially on heaths and by way-sides. a1784Johnson in Mrs. Piozzi Anecd. (1786) 5 A stone he saw standing by the way-side, set up..in honour of a man who had leaped a certain leap thereabouts. 1850Anne Pratt Comm. Things of Sea-side iii. 171 The wild-flowers, which grace every way⁓side. 1878Swinburne Poems & B. Ser. ii. Before Sunset 6 Lighted shade and shadowy light In the wayside and the way. 1893M. Pemberton Iron Pirate i, A crucifix that stood on the wayside by the hill-foot yonder. 1894J. Davidson Ballads & Songs 121 All the waysides now are flowerless. 1965New Statesman 7 May 719/1 Responding to persuasion, young wives go back into teaching... Some toughen and survive, others fall by the wayside. 1973Times 24 May 10/1 She went to San Diego for a world junior tournament last year and fell by the wayside only because of a marker's error. 1977L. T. Milic in Bond & McLeod Newslett. to Newspapers i. 41 As society changes, so must the tone of a publication or it falls by the wayside.
b. attrib. passing into adj. Of or pertaining to the wayside; situated on, lying near, occurring, growing or living by the wayside. wayside pulpit, a board, usu. placed outside a place of worship, displaying a religious text or maxim.
1807J. Ruickbie (title) The Way-side Cottager; consisting of Pieces in Prose and Verse. 1845J. Saunders Cab. Pict. Engl. Life, Chaucer 17 The little wayside chapels, erected for the accommodation of travellers. 1861J. M. Campbell Hymn, ‘We plough the fields’ He paints the wayside flower. 1878B. Taylor Deukalion iii. vi. 132 Free as the wayside brook to whoso thirsts. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect II. 388 The coach stopped to change horses at a way-side inn. 1906Petrie Relig. Anc. Egypt xiii. 85 Such were the places for wayside devotions and passing prayers. 1925Advertising World Dec. 302/2 (heading) How the ‘wayside pulpit’ scheme was organized. 1932Q. D. Leavis Fiction & Reading Public ii. iv. 193 An inspection of the slogans displayed on Wayside Pulpits..reveals that they are largely devoted to denunciation of an attitude described as pessimistic. 1976Church Times 20 Feb. 11/1 ‘My greed is another's need’ and ‘Live simply that others may simply live’ have become familiar slogans on wayside pulpits and in parish magazines. 1981F. Inglis Promise of Happiness iii. 93 We most of us know when we are lying. My wayside pulpit-point is that we no longer care very much. |