| 单词 | the common road |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe common (also general, usual) road a. the common (also general, usual) road: the usual, ordinary, or expected course or type of something. Chiefly with out of. Cf. run n.2 45a. Obsolete.Very common in the 17th and 18th centuries. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usual course, condition, etc. > the usual or ordinary way or procedure coursec1325 highway1550 way1556 the common (also general, usual) road1607 the beaten track1638 run1688 1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater Prol. sig. A2 Some things in it you may meete with, which are out of the common Roade. 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion To Rdr. sig. A3v How many..suspect this his short essay of knowledge, transcending the common Rode? 1676 T. Otway Don Carlos ii. 8 Why should it be A Stain upon my Blood Because I came not in the Common Road. 1708 J. Swift Predict. for 1708 2 They are not able to spell any Word out of the usual Road. 1732 H. Fielding Mock Doctor Ded. I shall not here proceed in the common Road of Dedications. 1778 F. Burney Diary 28 Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 112 His manners are somewhat blunt..& he is, all together, out of the common Road. 1826 W. Hazlitt Plain Speaker II. 168 Ask him a question, ever so little out of the common road, and he stares you in the face. 1827 Times 2 Jan. 3 They [sc. his physicians] thought it right to try something new, and out of the usual road of practice. 1878 Belfast News-Let. 21 Mar. 3/4 Men who..rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings out of the common road. < as lemmas |
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