单词 | churchway |
释义 | churchwayn. 1. A path or road leading to a church, esp. (in later use) one designated (if not on public land) as a right of way. Cf. church path n. at church n.1 and adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > land > [noun] > public way leading to church churchwayOE society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > leading to specific places mill-wayOE churchwayOE city ways1568 OE Bounds (Sawyer 963) in D. Hooke Pre-Conquest Charter-bounds Devon & Cornwall (1994) 197 Þonne ut on þone hig weg to þam cyricwege, þanon on gerihte to þam mere. c1240 in H. E. Salter Cartulary Oseney Abbey (1934) IV. 312 (MED) Supra Chircheweye dimidiam a cram. a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xxiii. 83 Also, ȝif ani heiwei ore churche wei be fordon, ore arerde, aȝen þe lordes fraunchise, [etc.]. c1425 Liber Monasterii de Hyda (Sawyer 865) in S. Miller Charters of New Minster, Winchester (2001) 204 Fro thennys to the chyrche wey [c1425 (OE) on þa cyricwege], fro that wey to the thorn. ?1592 J. Manwood Brefe Coll. Lawes Forest 136 If any man haue stopped or streightned any Church-way Milne-way, or other wayes within the Forest. 1615 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) II. 90 The Church-way in Alne being in decay. 1686 E. Ashmole Diary 9 Jan. in Mem. (1717) 76 My Neighbour..having lately set up a pale along his Garden, and encroached upon the Church-Way about Two-Foot, I undertook to complain of it. 1766 Act Vesting Estate Piggott Ince 11 East Croft Field, abutting towards the North on the Churchway there. 1793 T. W. Williams Law Justice of Peace I. 484 Churchwardens are to see that the churchways be well kept and repaired. 1845 H. W. Cripps Pract. Treat. Laws Church & Clergy iii. v. 434 If the churchway..be a highway,..the charge of repairing it of common right lies on the occupiers of lands within the parish. 1898 Bookman Oct. 152/2 The folk will line the Church-way, strewing flowers and branches. 1915 J. Trevena Moyle Church-town i. iv. 30 That pathway continued until it joined a church-way, which made it haunted ground. 2008 Gloucester Echo (Nexis) 5 July 4 There were complaints about paper/polythene waste on the compost heap by the churchway. 2. A manner or form of (esp. nonconformist) church polity or practice; the embodiment of this in a particular congregation or denomination of the Christian Church. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun] > usage of churchway1641 1641 H. Burton Protestation Protested 10 The Church-way of independency is too strict. 1644 T. Edwards Antapologia 165 Your Churchway consisting all of particular Congregations, and not growing into great bodies by combinations and Synods. 1689 R. Ware Foxes & Firebrands: Pt. III 219 None..but only they who are Members in a Church-way. 1719 Confession of Faith Certain Christians p. vii Some think, That the three last Church-ways are no Institutions of Christ. 1789 E. Williams Antipœdobaptism Examined I. iii. 356 And further;—this was the primitive and natural church way, under the Law of nature afore Moses. 1884 G. E. Ellis in J. Winsor Narr. Crit. Hist. Amer. III. vii. 242 The establishment of immediate harmony and accord between their respective church ways. 1898 N. Moore Pilgrims & Puritans 104 He did not like the church ways of the Boston men any better than he had liked the church ways of the English bishops. 1997 L. F. Asher J. Clarke (1609–1676) vi. 39 He came to differ with them in their church way. Compounds General attributive and appositive (in sense 1), esp. in churchway path. ΚΠ 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. ii. 12 The graues, all gaping wide, Euery one lets forth his spright, In the Churchway paths to glide. View more context for this quotation 1751 T. Gray Elegy xxix. 11 Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him born. 1786 Brit. Essayists No. 62. (1823) 71 The people followed the carriage till it came to the church-way ford. a1832 G. Crabbe Poet. Wks. (1834) VIII. 165 The giant oak, Whose boughs the keeper's cottage hide, And part the church-way lane o'erlook. 1833 J. Kenyon Rhymed Plea for Tolerance 124 To tread the valley's churchway paths again. 1891 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 742/1 An irregular but massive group of elms towering above the churchway path between the transepts, the chancel, and the river. 1901 H. Edgren tr. H. Ibsen in Poet-lore 13 340 Thoughts came flocking in a throng, Like folk on church-way road. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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