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单词 to hold a way
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to hold a way
(a) to hold a way: to follow a particular path; to take a particular route. Also with adjective or possessive specifying the path followed. Frequently figurative, esp. in spiritual contexts. Obsolete.Sometimes, esp. in later figurative use, with the implication of maintaining a course without deviation, converging with Phrases 1c(b).
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the world > action or operation > continuing > continue doing or keep going in a course of action [verb (intransitive)]
to hold a wayOE
to hold forthc1200
to hold ona1225
reignc1300
lasta1325
continuea1340
to continue doing or to doc1384
pursuea1425
perseverec1425
to hold one's wayc1480
prosecute1528
to go on1533
to run on1533
keep1548
to follow on1560
insist1586
to keep on1589
to carry on1832
to carry on1857
string1869
the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > keep pace with
to hold a wayOE
to run with ——?c1400
coast1413
endure1588
to keep upa1633
to keep with ——1817
pace1931
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [verb (transitive)] > advance at equal rate with
to hold a wayOE
to keep (also hold) pace1583
evena1616
filea1625
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > continue on one's course
to hold a wayOE
to hold forthc1200
to go ona1500
OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xviii. 19 Ic wat soðlice þæt he wyle bebeodan hys bearnum.., þæt hi healdon Godes weg [L. viam Domini] & þæt hi don rihtwisnysse.
OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) lii. 281 Ealswa ma weg sceal healdan betwux fyre and wætere, þæt se man ne forbyrne ne ne adrince.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 161 (MED) Ðan þe safarinde men seð þe sa sterre, hie wuten sone wuderward hie sullen weie holden.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 4016 (MED) Where a king is propre wys..every vertu holt his weie.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 708 This Messager on morwe whan he wook Vn to the Castel halt the nexte wey.
1420 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 68 To declar vn to zow the tyme of hys comyng, and the weyes also the qwych he wele holde.
a1500 ( Vision E. Leversedge (1991) 118 (MED) Docturs in þer scolis..disputen, sume holding on way and sume annoþer way.
1661 W. Howell Inst. Gen. Hist. ii. ii. 341 Having passed the Hellespont into the Cherronesus, he held the same way that Xerxes formerly had done.
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