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middle way
1. A course between two extremes. Cf. mod.L. via media.
a1225Ancr. R. 336 Þe middel weie of mesure is euer guldene. 1390Gower Conf. I. 2, I wolde go the middel weie And wryte a bok betwen the tweie. 1704Norris Ideal World ii. ii. 98 Which absurd consequence..falls upon those of the middle way, who unite matter and thought in Brutes. 1725Watts Logic ii. v. §2 Where two extremes are proposed..and neither of them has certain and convincing evidence, it is generally safest to take the middle way.
2. The middle of the way; one's mid-course.
1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xi. xxii, Aselges..met the virgin in the middle way. 1718Pope Iliad xvi. 952 Apollo dreadful stops thy middle way.
attrib.1648Gage West Ind. 116 A plain champaign Countrey, which continued till within a league of the middle way lodge.
b. Used advb. Half-way, on the way.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 981 The King remoued his campe to a village myddell way betwene Sainct Omers and Tyrwine. 1860Whittier Truce of Piscataqua 111 One alone, a little maid, Middleway her steps delayed. |