middle wayn.adv.

Brit.

/ˌmɪdl ˈweɪ/, U.S.

/ˌmɪd(ə)l ˈweɪ/

Forms: see middle adj. and way n.¹ and int.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: middle adj., way n.¹ and int.¹

Etymology: < middle adj. + way n.¹ and int.¹ Compare Middle Dutch middelwech (Dutch middelweg), Middle Low German middelwech, German Mittelweg.With sense A. 2a compare classical Latin via media , especially in Seneca. In sense A. 2b after Pali majjhimā paṭipadā and Sanskrit madhyamā pratipadā.

A. n.

1. The middle one of three ways or paths.

ΚΠ

OE Charter: Abp. Oswald to Wulfgeat (Sawyer 1373) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 116 Ondlong ceasterweges to middelwege, of middelwege þæt eft to ceastergeate.

a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid (1584) iii King Helenus commaundments did vs stay, To keepe betweene Charybdis gulfe, and Scylla middle way.

1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 263 The Italians Steriamus tooke,..and so determined to take the middle way. The King of Macedon was to take the first way on the right hand, and Parselius on the left.

1706 D. Baker Hist. Job iii. 50 In th' middle way betwixt Job's House and Theirs A gentle Hill to Passengers appears.

1852 H. Alford Fragm. Long-pondered Poem in Poet. Wks. (1868) 325 He through the middle way of highest Heaven Passed.

1982 R. Shelton Sel. Poems 149 When the road forked he took the middle way and disappeared into the desert.

a. A course or state which avoids extremes; a compromise. Phrase no middle way. Cf. via media at via n. 3a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > [noun] > middle course

middle way?c1225

midwayc1451

golden mean1541

middle course1579

mid-course1603

middle path1606

third way1638

midstream1670

middle line1692

middle road1759

mid-ground1825

juste milieu1831

via media1834

middle ground1961

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 250 Þe middel wei of mesure is eauer guldene.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 17 (MED) I wolde go the middel weie And wryte a bok betwen the tweie.

1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hercules Oetæus ii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 199 Who so he is that shunnes the middle waye, Shall neuer fynd fast footing any where.

1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xxiii. sig. M7 Affectation begets Extremities: Man is allowed onely the middle way, he strayeth when he affects.

a1642 J. Suckling Goblins v. 49 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) The secret of the prison-house shall out I sweare. I'le set all first on fire, For middle waies to such an end are dull.

1702 R. Steele Funeral iv. 50 There's no Middle way, I must Expose her to make a Re-union Impracticable.

1725 I. Watts Logick 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.

1759 S. Fielding Hist. Countess of Dellwyn I. i. xiv. 140 The Third is a Kind of a middle Way between both; which, according as it is managed, may be turned to any Purpose.

1852 H. W. Dulcken tr. I. L. Pfeiffer Visit Holy Land, Egypt, & Italy iii. 60 In all things the middle way is the safest.

1884 Chicago Advance 11 Dec. They now sought a middle way between Presbyterianism and Congregationalism.

1943 A. M. Lindbergh Diary 29 Mar. in War within & Without (1980) 336 Atmosphere very bohemian and fast furious arguments between Sidney Hook and Freda. He evidently believes in ‘the middle way’ and defends his belief in it.

1986 L. Garfield December Rose vi. 39 There was no middle way with Inspector Creaker. He was a man with no twilight in his soul.

b. Buddhism. = middle path n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Buddhism > [noun] > concepts in

satori1727

karma1785

prajna1828

sunyata1828

dharma1829

Buddha dharma1853

middle way1863

Eightfold Path1870

middle path1877

Noble Truth1877

anitya1882

dukkha1886

anatman1894

Buddha dhamma1894

anatta1904

anicca1904

no-self1921

no-mind1934

nothingness1940

no-thought1949

no-mindness1959

1838 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 7 144 Madhyámika school.., they that keep a middle way.]

1863 E. Schlagintweit Buddhism in Tíbet v. 43 The Prasanga school [of Mahāyāna Buddhism] maintains..the negation of existence as well as of non-existence... For, not to say of what has never existed, to be; and of the truly existing, not to be; this is to take a middle way, Madhyama.

1892 R. S. Copleston Buddhism Primitive & Present ii. viii. 128 The Middle Way is another instance of Buddhist formula which has played no real part in the thought of the writers of the books.

1927 Buddhism in Eng. Jan. 154/1 Hot desire that ever thrusts for pleasuring is ill companion on the Middle Way.

1977 K. Rexroth Buddhist Writings Lafcadio Hearn p. xvii He..preached to them the Middle Way between self-indulgence and extreme asceticism.

1984 C. Humphreys Pop. Dict. Buddhism 128 The Majjhima Patipadā or Middle Way described by the Buddha in his First Sermon.

3. The middle stretch of a way or path; the middle part of a person's course, life, etc. Now chiefly poetic.

ΚΠ

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xii. 139 When we begin to speake a thing, and breake of in the middle way.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xi. xxii. 151 Aselges..met the virgin in the middle way.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 116 A plain champaign Countrey, which continued till within a league of the middle way lodge.

1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xvi. 952 Apollo dreadful stops thy middle way.

1737 H. Baker tr. Ovid in Medulla Poetarum Romanorum II. 402 The Sky descends in Sheets of Rain:..One rising, falling one, the Heav'ns and Sea Meet at their Confines in the middle Way.

1820 J. W. Eastburn & R. C. Sands Yamoyden ii. xxv. 85 Ere he touched the trembling maid, Even in his middle way,—Loud from the wood a gunshot rung.

1940 T. S. Eliot East Coker v, in Coll. Poems (1974) 202 So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years—Twenty years largely wasted.

1986 E. Boland Coll. Poems (1995) 111 In my late thirties, past the middle way, I can say how did I get here?

†B. adv.

Halfway, midway; on the way. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > [adverb] > half-way or midway

half-wayc1405

midgate1511

middle way1569

midway1587

part-way1822

midgates1883

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 981 The King remoued his campe to a village myddell way betwene Sainct Omers and Tyrwine.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 55 All the Popes cookes in their white sleeues and linnen aprons met him middle way, to entertaine and receyue the king of fishes.

1860 J. G. Whittier Truce of Piscataqua 111 One alone, a little maid, Middleway her steps delayed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	middle way
释义	middle wayn.adv. Brit. /ˌmɪdl ˈweɪ/, U.S. /ˌmɪd(ə)l ˈweɪ/ Forms: see middle adj. and way n.¹ and int.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: middle adj., way n.¹ and int.¹ Etymology: < middle adj. + way n.¹ and int.¹ Compare Middle Dutch middelwech (Dutch middelweg), Middle Low German middelwech, German Mittelweg.With sense A. 2a compare classical Latin via media , especially in Seneca. In sense A. 2b after Pali majjhimā paṭipadā and Sanskrit madhyamā pratipadā. A. n. 1. The middle one of three ways or paths. ΚΠ OE Charter: Abp. Oswald to Wulfgeat (Sawyer 1373) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 116 Ondlong ceasterweges to middelwege, of middelwege þæt eft to ceastergeate. a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid (1584) iii King Helenus commaundments did vs stay, To keepe betweene Charybdis gulfe, and Scylla middle way. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 263 The Italians Steriamus tooke,..and so determined to take the middle way. The King of Macedon was to take the first way on the right hand, and Parselius on the left. 1706 D. Baker Hist. Job iii. 50 In th' middle way betwixt Job's House and Theirs A gentle Hill to Passengers appears. 1852 H. Alford Fragm. Long-pondered Poem in Poet. Wks. (1868) 325 He through the middle way of highest Heaven Passed. 1982 R. Shelton Sel. Poems 149 When the road forked he took the middle way and disappeared into the desert. 2. a. A course or state which avoids extremes; a compromise. Phrase no middle way. Cf. via media at via n. 3a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > [noun] > middle course middle way?c1225 midwayc1451 golden mean1541 middle course1579 mid-course1603 middle path1606 third way1638 midstream1670 middle line1692 middle road1759 mid-ground1825 juste milieu1831 via media1834 middle ground1961 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 250 Þe middel wei of mesure is eauer guldene. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 17 (MED) I wolde go the middel weie And wryte a bok betwen the tweie. 1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hercules Oetæus ii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 199 Who so he is that shunnes the middle waye, Shall neuer fynd fast footing any where. 1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xxiii. sig. M7 Affectation begets Extremities: Man is allowed onely the middle way, he strayeth when he affects. a1642 J. Suckling Goblins v. 49 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) The secret of the prison-house shall out I sweare. I'le set all first on fire, For middle waies to such an end are dull. 1702 R. Steele Funeral iv. 50 There's no Middle way, I must Expose her to make a Re-union Impracticable. 1725 I. Watts Logick 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. 1759 S. Fielding Hist. Countess of Dellwyn I. i. xiv. 140 The Third is a Kind of a middle Way between both; which, according as it is managed, may be turned to any Purpose. 1852 H. W. Dulcken tr. I. L. Pfeiffer Visit Holy Land, Egypt, & Italy iii. 60 In all things the middle way is the safest. 1884 Chicago Advance 11 Dec. They now sought a middle way between Presbyterianism and Congregationalism. 1943 A. M. Lindbergh Diary 29 Mar. in War within & Without (1980) 336 Atmosphere very bohemian and fast furious arguments between Sidney Hook and Freda. He evidently believes in ‘the middle way’ and defends his belief in it. 1986 L. Garfield December Rose vi. 39 There was no middle way with Inspector Creaker. He was a man with no twilight in his soul. b. Buddhism. = middle path n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Buddhism > [noun] > concepts in satori1727 karma1785 prajna1828 sunyata1828 dharma1829 Buddha dharma1853 middle way1863 Eightfold Path1870 middle path1877 Noble Truth1877 anitya1882 dukkha1886 anatman1894 Buddha dhamma1894 anatta1904 anicca1904 no-self1921 no-mind1934 nothingness1940 no-thought1949 no-mindness1959 1838 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 7 144 Madhyámika school.., they that keep a middle way.] 1863 E. Schlagintweit Buddhism in Tíbet v. 43 The Prasanga school [of Mahāyāna Buddhism] maintains..the negation of existence as well as of non-existence... For, not to say of what has never existed, to be; and of the truly existing, not to be; this is to take a middle way, Madhyama. 1892 R. S. Copleston Buddhism Primitive & Present ii. viii. 128 The Middle Way is another instance of Buddhist formula which has played no real part in the thought of the writers of the books. 1927 Buddhism in Eng. Jan. 154/1 Hot desire that ever thrusts for pleasuring is ill companion on the Middle Way. 1977 K. Rexroth Buddhist Writings Lafcadio Hearn p. xvii He..preached to them the Middle Way between self-indulgence and extreme asceticism. 1984 C. Humphreys Pop. Dict. Buddhism 128 The Majjhima Patipadā or Middle Way described by the Buddha in his First Sermon. 3. The middle stretch of a way or path; the middle part of a person's course, life, etc. Now chiefly poetic. ΚΠ 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xii. 139 When we begin to speake a thing, and breake of in the middle way. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xi. xxii. 151 Aselges..met the virgin in the middle way. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 116 A plain champaign Countrey, which continued till within a league of the middle way lodge. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xvi. 952 Apollo dreadful stops thy middle way. 1737 H. Baker tr. Ovid in Medulla Poetarum Romanorum II. 402 The Sky descends in Sheets of Rain:..One rising, falling one, the Heav'ns and Sea Meet at their Confines in the middle Way. 1820 J. W. Eastburn & R. C. Sands Yamoyden ii. xxv. 85 Ere he touched the trembling maid, Even in his middle way,—Loud from the wood a gunshot rung. 1940 T. S. Eliot East Coker v, in Coll. Poems (1974) 202 So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years—Twenty years largely wasted. 1986 E. Boland Coll. Poems (1995) 111 In my late thirties, past the middle way, I can say how did I get here? †B. adv. Halfway, midway; on the way. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [adverb] > half-way or midway half-wayc1405 midgate1511 middle way1569 midway1587 part-way1822 midgates1883 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 981 The King remoued his campe to a village myddell way betwene Sainct Omers and Tyrwine. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 55 All the Popes cookes in their white sleeues and linnen aprons met him middle way, to entertaine and receyue the king of fishes. 1860 J. G. Whittier Truce of Piscataqua 111 One alone, a little maid, Middleway her steps delayed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adv.OE
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