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a1450 Chron. Repton in Jrnl. Derbyshire Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. (1902) 24 70 Ranulphe..gave to the said chirch..libtie..in..heighwyes, pathwaies, market, ande mylnes.

1580 A. Saker Narbonus i. 19 Your streetes are stately, oure pathwayes are pleasant.

1625 G. Percy Observ. in S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. ix. ii. 1688 By chance wee espied a path-way like to an Irish pace.

1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xviii. 657 To this, one Pathway gently winding leads, Where march a Train with Baskets on their Heads.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xiii. 270 There was but one path-way which led through the woods.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 8 High in his path-way hung the sun.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 250 If its channels be constricted the blood takes the pathway through the locomotor organs.

1944 C. Beaton Diary 22 Apr. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xiv. 137 The pathways, made through the mountainsides centuries ago, are still used as short cuts by the coolies.

2001 Fodor's Healthy Escapes (rev. ed.) 101 Winding, plumeria-lined pathways lighted at night with flaming torches.

a1536 W. Tyndale Pathway Holy Script. in Wks. (1573) I. 377 I supposed it very necessary to prepare this Pathway into the Scripture for you, that ye might walke surely and euer know the true from the false.

1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 72^v Johan Baptyst..prepared a playne pathwaye to Christ and hys kyngedome.

1653 A. Collins Divine songs & Meditacions Pref. They may who have right informacion More plainly shew the path-way to Salvacion.

1861 H. A. Jacobs Incidents Life Slave Girl v. 48 From childhood to womanhood her pathway was blooming with flowers.

1989 Independent 26 Aug. 16/4 It now seems right and proper for those of us who shared some of their pathways to put down on paper what seems significant to us about their lives.

1885 Science 11 Dec. 521/1 The upper parts of the brain..contain no general co-ordinating motor-centres, but only sensory centres and pathways.

1934 J. H. Globus Neuroanat. (ed. 6) 63 There will now be no difficulty in linking up the chain of nuclei and tracts, which form the optic pathways.

1972 Science 5 May 536/2 The descending cortical and brainstem pathways to the spinal cord represent the main instrument by which the brain controls movements.

2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Sept. 33/4 The basis of a biotechnology that purports to ‘correct’ damaged neural pathways in brains like Alfred's own.

1905 Science 7 July 9/1 All forms of proteid decomposition follow, therefore, the pathway of cleavage into amino acids.

1927 M. Bodansky Introd. Physiol. Chem. xi. 271 Another pathway of metabolism has been suggested, namely one involving the conversion of arginine into guanidine-butyric acid.

1947 Growth 11 232 The pathway of galactose fermentation [in yeast].

1967 M. E. Hale Biol. Lichens viii. 106 The biosynthetic pathways by which they appear to be synthesized.

2001 Science 7 Sept. 1727/1 Genomic technology has made it feasible to consider transplanting entire metabolic pathways, rather than just single genes encoding single enzymes.

1971 Sci. Amer. Sept. 45/2 The carbon dioxide pathways in our biosphere.

1973 Nature 13 Apr. 453/1 The pathways and interactions of mercury in the estuarine and marine environment.

1982 G. C. Hill & J. S. Holman Chem. in Context: Lab. Man. & Study Guide 135/2 There are two reaction pathways available to this molecule. The first is a rather low energy pathway, in which the ring opens to give propene.

2001 New Scientist 4 Aug. 77/1 (advt.) A large project investigating the impact of dysregulated signalling pathways in tumours on clinical drug resistance.