单词 | the way of all flesh |
释义 | > as lemmasthe way of all flesh (b) the way of all flesh: experience common to all people as they pass through life. Chiefly in to go the way of all flesh (formerly also to enter (into) the way of all flesh): to die; (in extended use) to disappear, fall into disrepair, be discontinued, etc. [Compare post-classical Latin via universae carnis the way of all flesh (from 11th cent. in British and continental sources). There appears to have been some variation between this and to go the way of all the earth at Phrases 4a(a) even in the biblical text; compare quots. 16091 and 16092, where the way of all flesh is used to translate post-classical Latin viam universae terrae, lit. ‘the way of all the earth’, and an early modern concordance of the Vulgate ( H. de Saint-Cher Sacrorum Bibliorum Vulgatae editionis concordantiae (1642)), which reads viam universi carnis for Joshua 23:14 in its entry for caro, but viam universae terrae under via and terra.] ΚΠ 1564 E. Grindal Serm. Funeral Prince Ferdinandus sig. C.ii The most noble and myghty prince Ferdinandus the Romayne Emperour, for whose Funeral this preparation and concourse is here made, hath entred the way of all fleshe. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. ii. sig. D I saw him euen now going the way of all flesh (thats to say) towardes the Kitchin. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. 1 Kings ii. 2 I enter into the way of all flesh [L. viam universæ terræ]. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Josh. xxiii. 14. Behold I this day enter into the way of al flesh [L. viam universae terrae]. 1611 T. Heywood Golden Age iii. sig. F4v If I go by land, and mis-carry, then I go the way of all flesh. If I go by sea and mis-carry, then I go the way of all fish. 1675 M. D'Assigny tr. C. Drelincourt Christians Def. against Fears of Death xvi. 337 Consider that Death is the way of all flesh, and the Grave is the last retreat which God hath appointed for all living. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. c. 83 His noble patron was seized with an apoplectic fit, from which he was recovered by the physicians, that they might dispatch him according to rule; and accordingly, in two months after they were called, he went the way of all flesh. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. i. v. 53 I heard that don Rodrigo had gone the way of all flesh. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 27 He pardoned us off-hand, and allowed us something to live upon, till he went the way of all flesh. 1887 Murray's Mag. Sept. 422 His former retainer, Phil Judd, had long gone the way of all flesh, however seasoned. 1942 Motor Boating Jan. 117/1 Styles change..; and the first thing we know we shall be back where we began. It is the way of all flesh and the way of all boats. 2002 NFT Programme Booklet Sept. 11/1 Stroheim's cruelly ironic tale of a rakish Ruritanian aristocrat..who falls for an innocent young girl.., only for their love to go the way of all flesh. < as lemmas |
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