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单词 a twenty devil way
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a twenty devil way
(a) As an impatient amplification of away adv., adj., and n.; further intensified as a twenty devil way, on aller (also alder) devil way, on aller twenty devil way and variants. Obsolete. [ < a prep.1 (in early use also in prep., on prep.) + devil n. + way n.1 (compare way adv.), after away adv.; apparently originally showing the genitive plural of devil n. (i.e. the reflex of Old English dēofla ). For genitive plural alre , alder see discussion at all adj., pron., n., adv., and conj. and compare alder- prefix.
The phrase in quot. c1225 appears to be a further extension of aller devil way , but its exact sense is uncertain. It is possible that diche is a form of ditch n.1, used to invoke the pit of hell; however, it has also been suggested that the text is corrupt, in which case it may not show an example of this phrase at all (see the discussion in S. R. T. O. d'Ardenne Þe Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Iuliene (1961) 147).]
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c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) l. 705 Leac him aȝeinwart as þe beare unhwiht; in alre diche deofle wei ne mahte nawt letten.
c1300 St. Patrick's Purgatory (Laud) 124 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 203 Þov worst, lif and soule, a-deuele wei [a1325 Corpus Cambr. adeolwey] al clene i-nome.
c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) 2164 And bad hir go þat ilche dai On alder twenti deuel wai.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Ellesmere) (1870) l. 4257 And forth he goth a [c1405 Hengwrt on, c1410 Harl. 7334 in] twenty deuel way.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 2177 A twenty deuelewey the wynd hym dryue.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiv. 172 Go hens, harlottys, in xx dewill way, Fast and belyfe.
a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. Prol. 260 A twenty devill way fall hys wark atanys.
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