单词 | the way |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Way (b) In singular. Sometimes spec. in the Way: (a name for) the Christian religion. Cf. sense A. 3b.The spec. sense arises from translations in Tyndale and most subsequent English Bibles of various passages in the Acts of the Apostles (see note in etymology). ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > [noun] gospelc950 the WayOE ChristendomOE crossc1325 the faithc1384 Christianitya1400 Christenhoodc1443 Christ's professionc1475 Christianism1554 Xtianity1634 Christism1842 OE Andreas (1932) 170 Leode lærde on lifes weg. OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) i. 1 Abbate..regiam catholicę fidei uiam demonstrante : abbude..cynelicne rihtes geleafan weg geswuteligendum. c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) l. 58 Nes þer nan þet mahte..wrenchen hire mid al his crefti crokes ut of þe weie. ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 235 (MED) Wrecchis..folowen not þis swete doctryn and þe riȝt way ȝouun of myn oonli soþfast sone, Ihesu Crist. 1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Acts ix. 2 Saul..desyred of him letters to Damasco, to ye synagoges: that yf he founde eny of this waye, whether they were men or wemen, he myght bringe them bounde vnto Ierusalem. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Acts xix. 9 Il-speaking the way of the Lord before the multitude. 1730 H. Wharton Some Manifestations & Comms. of Spirit 167 Then every Spring of Light as it manifests itself is for use to teach the Way of God. 1781 R. Pulteney Gen. View Writings Linnæus xxxix. 634 She seemes not, to be, what she was before; but now beginnes to walke, with a new kind of puritie, in the way of our Lord. 1863 R. Young Holy Bible (ed. 2) Acts ix. 1 Saul..did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of the way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem. 1879 R. K. Douglas Confucianism iii. 72 The Sage..maintains a perfect uprightness and pursues the heavenly way without the slightest deflection. 1881 Bible (R.V.) Acts xxiii. 14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the Way which they call a sect, so serve I the God of our fathers. 1884 W. W. Rockhill tr. Life of Buddha vi. 199 These are what one must know as the eight branches of the way. 1941 A. C. Bouquet Compar. Relig. vii. 123 Primitive Buddhism, as distinct from institutional Buddhism, has even traces of a post-mortem tribunal by an adjudicator or controller who is called Dhamma-Raja, the Lord of the Way. 1987 Diem Thanh Truong & C. Melkonian tr. Sutra on Eight Realizations of Great Beings 5 He lives simply in order to practice the Way. His precepts keep him free of attachment to worldly things. 1998 P. W. Walaskay Acts iv. 94 Saul has asked the high priest for letters to the synagogues requesting their assistance in reporting those belonging to ‘the Way’—one of the names the early church took for itself. 2015 New Nation (Bangladesh) (Nexis) 22 June We should spend in the way of Allah, help the needy, struggle to the utmost to uphold Truth. the way j. Irish English. the way: (as a compound conjunction) so that, with the result that. [After Irish sa chaoi so that ( < sa in the + caoi path, road: see ca n.); compare the similarly-formed sa dóigh so that, lit. ‘in the manner’.] ΚΠ 1855 ‘H. Whitney’ Legends Mt. Leinster iv. 90 Be sure to get it in two separate ha'porths, the way he'd have the two tillies. 1899 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Some Experiences Irish R.M. v. 118 A couple o' dhraws o' th' ash plant across the butt o' the tail, the way I wouldn't blind her. 1912 J. Stephens Crock of Gold xiv. 225 Be sure and hold him tight..the way we can have a good look at him. 1924 R. Macaulay Orphan Island i. 16 We must see about fermenting some of this fruit-juice, the way we'll get something fit to drink. 1958 Lochlann 1 134 The way they wouldn't break. 1998 T. P. Dolan Dict. Hiberno-Eng. 251/1 I left home early the way I'd miss the traffic. < as lemmas |
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