| 单词 | in the —— way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin the —— way 26. A specified type or class of things; kind, sort, description. In prepositional phrases with in, as in the way of, in the —— way: of the nature of; of the specified kind. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] kindeOE i-cundeOE mannera1225 jetc1330 colour1340 hair1387 estrete1393 gendera1398 hedea1400 savourc1400 stockc1450 toucha1500 rate1509 barrel1542 suit1548 fashion1562 special1563 stamp1573 family1598 garb1600 espece1602 kidney1602 bran1610 formality1610 editiona1627 make1660 cast1673 tour1702 way1702 specie1711 tenor1729 ilk1790 genre1816 stripe1853 persuasion1855 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iii. 183 He averr'd ‘That, in that way of Bill [sc. a bill of attainder] Private Satisfaction to each man's Conscience was sufficient, although No Evidence had been given in at all’. 1757 S. Foote Author i. 5 You have nothing in the compiling, or index Way, that you wou'd intrust to the Care of another? 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Philopœmen in Plutarch Lives ⁋4 From a child he was fond of everything in the military way. 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl II. v. 76 In the afternoon tea way, her bar exhibited the genteel thing. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. i. xii. 110 I should want for nothing in the bread and water way! 1875 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) III. xiii. 305 He did a good deal in the way of ravaging. 1948 R. M. Ayres Missing Tide i. 27 I suppose he can advance you anything you want in the way of money, can't he? 1966 J. Thompson in D. Foster Self Portraits (1991) 138 I haven't written much the last two or three years in the poetry way. 2001 J. Hamilton-Paterson Loving Monsters (2002) viii. 145 Anything in the way of foreplay was thought effeminate. < as lemmas |
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