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a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 306 If þou fyndist in a mannes body a lyme in wei of corrupcioun [L. in via corruptionis].

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 16^v The whiche ypocras seeyng the crafte of physike in weye of perdicion because alle his felawes were dede.

1482 R. Cely Let. 13 May in Cely Lett. (1975) 151 He askyd me hefe I wher in any whay of maryayge.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 161 A Physician, that..is vnacquainted with your body.., may put you in way for a present Cure, but ouerthroweth your Health in some other kinde.

1677 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 12th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Duke of Rutland (1889) 36 in Parl. Papers (C. 5889–II) XLIV. 393 Lord Mohun is now in a way of recovery.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 121 Being very ingenious at such Work, when they were once put in the Way of it.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 137 Seeing Things..in so fine a way of thriving upon my Island.

1729 W. Law Serious Call viii. 112 She has educated several poor children,..and put them in a way of an honest employment.

1779 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 259 You cannot expect a Dyer's letter from me, as your nephew Charles is so much more in the way of having authentic information.

1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. i. 26 Mr Croftangry is in the way of doing a foolish thing.

1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 24 Mar. 513/1 Even then they might sometimes put themselves in the way of being blown into the Regent's Canal.

1885 Liverpool Daily Post 7 July 4/4 Diplomatic difficulties, which he hoped were in the way of solution.

1902 W. B. Yeats Cathleen ni Hoolihan 13 220 We might be put in the way of making Patrick a priest someday, and he so good at his books.

1944 J. T. Flynn As we go Marching ii. x. 165 What I am driving at is that we are in a way of doing for fascism what we began to do for the trusts in the early 1900s.

1998 J. Bossy Peace in Post-Reformation Pref. Thanks..especially to Amanda Lillie, who put me in the way of finding the Sansovino statue which appears on the cover.

a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 97 The Abbesse and the Couente..graunted..that, in the wey of charite, that they wold fynde for ever a prest conuenient þat shold do a prestis service every day, namely for the sowles of the forsaid peple.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxvii. f. lxiii^v Dagobert..bete his Mayster, & after in way of despyte caused y^e berd of his Tutour to be shauyn of.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Abijcio Abiicere se alteri ad pedes..to prostrate him self at ones feete in way of intreatie.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 23 King William should geue him yerely in the way of a fee .xij. Markes of Golde.

1621 J. Chamberlain in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) II. 273 He concluded with a wish..for the felicity..of that..happy couple; and, in a way of amen, caused the Bishop of London..to give them a benediction.

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 85 Which I then bestowed upon some Servants of the Prince in way of Retribution for my Welcome thither.

1718 S. Blackwell Several Methods of reading Holy Script. Pref. sig. A2^v All I have farther to add, in way of Preface, is the following earnest Prayer.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. i. 327 In the way of compensation, he was allowed a pension.

1896 London Soc. July 92 Now I understood that these contortions had been in way of greeting.

1915 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 72 Those highly proper exactions in way of repayment for injury and destruction.

1996 A. K. Vitberg Marketing Health Care i. 1 So, in the way of introduction, I..would like to formally thank and acknowledge the progenitors of our collective heavy workload.

1541 M. Coverdale tr. H. Bullinger Christen State Matrimonye f. xlvij^v No vncomely thing is it, to geue honest presentes to honest damesels in the waye of honestie [Ger. umm eeren willen], & so to moue theyr myndes vnto the honour and loue of mariage.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. B4^v Gentle readers..as freely as my knauerie was mine owne, it shall be yours to vse in the way of honestie.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) i. i. 181 For thou wast got i' th way of honesty. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 73 I defie all Angels..but in the way of honesty . View more context for this quotation

1688 Pleasures Matrimony i. 8 There is no Father or Mother, Unkle, or Aunt, that will deny a Young Spark the first Visit, when he comes, as they say, in the Way of Honesty.

1712 J. Dunton Preaching-weathercock 6 Erasmus tells us,..‘That the getting of Children’ (tho in the Way of Honesty) ‘is the most foolish Act a wise Man can be guilty of.’

1880 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 June 374/1 No, sir ; I'm poor, and I may have took to drink; but I've allays kep' my 'ed above water in the way of honesty, and I really couldn't.

a1903 B. H. Barmby Rosslyn's Raid (1903) iv. 50 ‘I ha' heared o' driving horses and kye in the way of honesty,’ remarked the defeated raider.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke x. f. cii^v Iesus disputing with the Iewes had put the Sadducees to silence, who in the waye of prouyng hym [L. tentandi gratia], had putte foorthe a question of a woman.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 14 A kind of insinuation, as it were in via, in way of explication. View more context for this quotation

1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme Ep. Ded. sig. ⁂2 Which was done in way of Divine Honour to the Wisdome of the Deity.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 190 And yet in way of recovering health by changing of Aire, of study for a time in the University,..or of being imployed in publick Affairs, they [sc. licences to clergy for non-residence] cannot be wholy abrogated.

1662 H. More Philos. Writ. (1712) Pref. Gen. p. xxi The ancient Divines and Prophets..witness that the Soul is join'd to this earthly body in a way of punishment.

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 64 Coming closer.., in a way, as it were, of claiming acquaintance with him.

1579 Queen Elizabeth I in N. H. Nicolas Mem. Sir C. Hatton (1847) 106 Such Princes as in former time have sought us in way of marriage.

1583 B. Rich Phylotus & Emelia (1835) 11 But Phylotus in the ende desired Emelia of her father in the waie of Mariage.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 79 To speake a good word to Mistris Anne Page, for my Master in the way of Marriage . View more context for this quotation

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. xiii. 301 As if their sex in reference to men were not capable of any other kind of familiar friendship but in way to marriage.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 125 Her next lover..did not understand the refinements of the passion, and expressed no aversion to grapple with cousin Tabby in the way of marriage.

1825 Examiner 22 Aug. 537/2 He had behaved most disengenuously and dishonourably to the Plaintiff; for while..addressing her in the way of marriage, he had at the same time addressed another young lady.

1866 B. Taylor Story of Kennett xvi. 182 In my judgment, he seems to be drawn towards thee in the way of marriage.

1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie ii. 9 A thing not gathered in him by me in natur of anie consequence, but vttered by himself, in the waie of his discourse.

1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 58 Providing that it were done in the way of publicke justice.

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iv. i. 30 In the way of Trade, we still suspect the smoothest Dealers of the deepest designs.

1765 S. Foote Commissary i. 3 Not at all given to lying, but like other tradesfolks, in the way of her business.

1809 Panoplist Oct. 213/1 He that hath wronged so many, or in that manner (as in the way of daily trade) that he knows not in what measure he hath done it, or who they are, must redeem his fault by alms and largesses to the poor.

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 6 Remembering that he had come in the way of business, and was, as it were, under a flag of truce.

1911 Fortn. Rev. 1 Mar. 437 I doubt whether any single work of Bach's took more than the half of six months to compose, and the greatest of them all came in the way of his daily life.

1984 Irish Times 27 Nov. 12/5 The proprietor may come across it in the way of business but would not know the value without looking it up in his coin book.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 135 But in the way of bargaine..Ile cauill on the ninth part of a haire. View more context for this quotation

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 188 Hect... Hectors opinion Is this in way of truth: yet nere the lesse [etc.] . View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. ii. 137 Ile returne Consull, Or neuer trust to what my Tongue can do I'th way of Flattery further. View more context for this quotation]

1622 T. Matthew Of Love Iesus Christ lxxvi. 451 There was no power which could oblige him to it, in the way of force.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 202 He attempted to open her eyes in the way of exhortation, and, finding it produced no effect had recourse to prayer.

1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. vii. 171 That in the way of treaty more permanent advantages could be obtained..than by an action which would stain her with a breach of faith and hospitality.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 220 The attack was made, not in the way of storm, but by slow and scientific approaches.

c1704 Duchess of Marlborough Let. in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Duke of Buccleuch (1899) I. 353 The House of Lords are in a way of having hours very uncertain.

1742 H. Walpole Let. 6 Jan. (1833) 241 Here it is not the way to visit foreigners, unless you are of the Court, or are particularly in a way of having them at your house.

1842 Water-cure Jrnl. Aug. 45/2 Our medical men generally have got in a way of denouncing ‘fruits and vegetables’ so indiscriminately, that as much sickness and death have resulted from abandoning the good as from employing the bad.

1867 Flag of Our Union 16 Apr. 227/4 Sometimes Anne would take Mr. Barnard there to spend the evening. After a while, Mr. Barnard got in a way of going alone occasionally.

1914 Harper's Monthly Mag. Dec. 70/1 Well, we'd got in a way of not talking much.

1944 G. Heyer Friday's Child vi. 69 I dare say I shan't know how to go on at all. At least, just at first I shall not, though I expect I shall soon get into the way of it.

1860 Encycl. Brit. XX. 199/2 Those stancheons which come in way of boats' davits..will have an angle iron knee to turn under water-way, inside of bulwarks, well riveted to water-way plate.

1873 Royal Comm. Unseaworthy Ships: Prelim. Rep. II. 422/2 in Parl. Papers (C. 853-I) XXXVI. 335 Box stringer in way of lower deck beams repaired.

1931 Flight 10 Apr. 324/2 Cases have occurred of the raised flange on plate NA 507, which secures the sternpost to the top longeron, bending and cracking in way of the taper pin.

1960 Fishing Gaz. (N.Y.) 15 Mar. 18/1 The propeller shaft has 5/8″ thick centrifugally cast liners or wearing sleeves shrunk on in way of the stern bearing and stuffing box.

1993 Sport Aviation Aug. 56/1 The retract will add weight, probably wipe out laminar flow on the wing surface in way of the gear doors.

2013 B. Edwards Convoy will Scatter xiv. 169 A torpedo slammed into the British ship's side in way of her engine-room.