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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6569 Ta þreo kingess turrndenn hemm. Vt off þe rihhte weȝȝe. & forenn till herode king.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3956 Ðis asse wurð so sore of-dred Vt of ðe weige it haueð him led.

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 90^v Owt of way, delirus.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. clx^v/1 The first squyer..departed fro Puirenon at the hour of mydnight, and all the night he rode out of his way.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Deflecto Ex itinere ad visendum aliquem deflectere, to turne out of the way to see one.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 105 Meane-while it is nothing out-of my way, to prayse the close, or suspicious Asse, that will not trouble any other with his priuy Counsell, but can be content to be his owne Secretary.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 7 Nor lead me like a fire-brand, in the darke Out of my way . View more context for this quotation

1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 161 Let us then..step a little out of our way, and say somewhat of the Critical days.

a1704 J. Locke Conduct of Understanding §34 in Posthumous Wks. (1706) 105 They are more in danger to go out of the way, who are marching under the Conduct of a Guide, that 'tis an hundred to one will mislead them, than he that has not yet taken a step, and is likelier to be prevail'd on to enquire after the right way.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 12 It being a Month's Sail out of his Way.

1890 A. C. Bickley Midst Surrey Hills III. xxvii. 214 It was a good mile out of his way, but he felt he must see it again.

1960 H. Lee To kill Mockingbird xxvii. 262 Calpurnia said it was hard on Helen, because she had to walk nearly a mile out of her way to avoid the Ewells.

1993 L. Sparks in J. Wright Traveling High Way Home (1995) x. 119 I got on this big interstate and man, I must have gone two hundred miles out of the way. And we had to be somewhere next day for a show.

c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Royal) 302 He sent us to wrenchen eni rihtwise ut of þe weie.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1019 Sche trowed trewly..were sche out of þe weye þat william wold fonde for to pleie in þat place þe priue loue game.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. ii. 172 Somtyme kynde gooþ out of þe waye [L. Deuiat].

1487 W. Cely Let. 12 Sept. in Cely Lett. (1975) 233 He sayth yee schall be to ffar owte of the weye wythowte yee gree and bargeyne togeder.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 715/1 He hath set me out of the waye with his teachynge: par son enseignement il ma desuoyé.

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iv. sig. Tt.iiii Perhappes M. Morrello is not altogether out of the way in saing that beawty is not alwayes good.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 3 Know he, that he is much deceived, and to say more truely, quite out of the way.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 102 They are cleane out of the way, who when they wold vse them for any inward cause, doe cast away their winges and feete.

1694 F. Atterbury Scorner Incapable of Wisdom 8 Thus it is in all matters of Speculation or Practise; He that knows but a little of 'em..is more out of the way of True Knowledge than if he knew nothing at all.

1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. v. 6 Never was a Man more out of the way in an Argument than my Husband.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxix. 173 Our Governors cannot be always in the wrong; and he therefore who never gives them a Vote, must probably be as often out of the Way as they.

1780 London Mag. 49 App. 595/2 You seem to me quite out of the way, when you offer to insist on your daughter's compliance with what she looks upon as an intolerable slavery.

1824 Let. 2 Aug. in J. Constable Corr. (1962) 216 Every body say Josselyn has been quite out of the way..in his ideas of the value of land.

1879 C. H. Spurgeon Metrop. Tabernacle Pulpit XXIV. 203 We are all out of the way in some measure; the best child of God on earth is not perfect.

1906 G. M. Bodge Soldiers in King Philip's War (2002) v. 115 We shall not be far out of the way in concluding that the others were joined with the troopers in making up the twenty-six.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iii. iii. f. lv^v Thow puttest not thy self asyde and oute of my waye [Fr. de mon chemin], so that I myght passe.

1513 Lydgate's Troye Bk. (Pynson) iii. xxii. sig. O.iiij^v/1 The grekes flockmele, fledde out of his way.

1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Cv^v If Abner had knowne, what was in Ioabs harte I do not doubt but he would haue out of his waye sterte.

1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living ii. §5 Men stand upon their guard against them [sc. inquisitions], as they secure their meat against harpies and cats, laying all their counsels and secrets out of their way.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 55 The embroylments and factions that were then amongst the Arabs..made us desirous to keep as far as possible out of their way.

1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 28 They sent us a great many Bombs,..there came one swift as Lightning. I had much ado to get out of it's Way.

1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne II. ii. 25 The fellow kept out of my way, and I couldn't see him.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 423 Always glad to have me out of her way.

1913 J. G. Frazer Psyche's Task (ed. 2) iv. 80 If the two meet on a path they carefully avoid each other; he will step out of the way and she will hurry on.

1916 ‘B. M. Bower’ Phantom Herd 27 [He] backed out of the way of the Native Son, who sprawled himself over the table corner.

1955 A. West Heritage i. 12 The poor mite does all he can to keep out of your way, ma'am.

2009 J. Struthers Red Sky at Night 17 The mountain or blue hare..lives in the Scottish Highlands, keeping well out of the way of potential predators.

1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. D.vii It is owt of my wey, so it lyghtly mey To al good thyngs thy wey is owte of the wey.

1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Gggg2^v/2 This is a Thing out of my Way, not proper to me, cela n'est pas mon Affaire.

1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 165 What other Negotiations his Lordship carried on..is out of my way to relate.

1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret ii. 45 I don't much care for your poppers and sharpes, because why, they are out of my way.

1781 H. Cowley Belle's Stratagem iii. i. 39 Now I beg, my dear Mr. Hardy, you won't interfere in this business; it is a little out of your way.

1841 S. Warren Ten Thousand a-Year II. vii. 188 I'd give a trifle to know how..such people ever came to be concerned in such a case. 'Tis quite out of their way—which is in the criminal line of business!

1867 Once a Week 16 Nov. 572/2 You see, it's rather out of my way, being of use to other people.

1906 Internat. Q. Jan. 283 A considerable period of English political history that would otherwise have been rather out of my way became exceedingly attractive to me.

1653 R. Mead Combat Love & Friendship v. iv. 72 She'l put him out of his way and spoyl his riming.

1660 R. Baxter Vain Relig. Formal Hypocrite 72 The interposition of a friend or some intervenient word or business, is so small a rub, that it seldom puts him out of his way.

1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. (1693) §11. 10 They should be afraid to put Nature out of her Way in fashioning the Parts [of the body].

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxii. 57 By what Mr. Jonathan tells me just now, he was quite out of the way with you.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. v. 24 If, indeed, I am out of the way a little, I always take care to reward the varlets for bearing patiently my displeasure.

1796 F. Jacson Plain Sense (ed. 2) III. 173 Though, at present, we are put something out of our way, we hope still to find some sacred spot of earth.

1818 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) xxv. 346 They cannot put themselves out of their way on any account.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxx. 188 Anything [to drink] that's handy, miss; don't put yourself out of the way on our accounts.

1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians ii Why should Lady Castlewood put herself out of the way to welcome the young stranger?.. Was a great lady called upon to put herself out of the way for such a youth?

1873 M. Oliphant Innocent III. xi. 177 The maids not caring to put themselves out of the way for such guests.

1914 Round Table (Beloit Coll., Wisconsin) 28 Oct. 47/1 It won't put you out of your way much and it surely does help the fellow who is standing the grief.

1939 Irish Times 2 Oct. 4/7 He has no intention of going to war for Hitler, nor will he put himself out of the way to supply a bankrupt Germany.

1987 X. Hollander Happy Hooker (rev. ed.) xi. 208 He puts you out of your way to get a special type of girl, even if there are several already sitting around.

2013 Essex Chron. (Nexis) 13 June 3 I love to help regardless of whether or not it puts me out of my way.

1680 tr. J. Daillé Lively Picture of Lewis du Moulin 3 A very small matter did not only put him into a commotion, but into a rage: and made him go out of his way to be revenged.[No corresponding clause in the Latin original.]

1726 J. Oldmixon Crit. Hist. Eng. II. vi. 272 Mr. Echard goes out of his Way, to be thus Ceremonious, and worships the Cardinal without Occasion.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lxvi. 321 The culpable freedoms of persons, who, in what they went out of their way to say, must either be guilty of absurdity, meaning nothing; or, meaning something, of rudeness.

1835 N.Y. Mirror 9 May 353/2 He never went out of his way to oblige me.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. App. 645 One..hardly sees why any one should go out of his way to invent the tale.

1915 J. Turner Let. 19 Apr. in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 7 Do not, I beg of you, so put yourself out because a fellow goes out of his way to write a glowing acknowledgement.

1926 D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness vi. 138 All these new-fangled doctors went out of their way to invent subconsciousness and kleptomania.

1988 N. Bissoondath Casual Brutality viii. 166 I took, for amusement, to asking directions of strangers; it was remarkable how people went out of their way to help.

2003 S. Brett Murder in Museum xxxiv. 280 That woman—whom he'd gone out of his way to help—had made him look a fool there.

a1450 (c1375) G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite (Tanner 346) (1878) l. 318 Haue I oghte seyde oute of the way [c1450 Fairf. seyd oght amys I prey]?

1577 tr. ‘F. de L'Isle’ Legendarie sig. vij^v Of him therefore did not a gentleman of Caux speake much out of the waye, when [etc.].

a1624 Bp. M. Smith Serm. (1632) 207 But surely he that should say, that this one verse deserueth all these Elogies and Titles, should not speake a whit out of the way.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. xii. 144 It's surprizeable to me, Mr. Hobson, you can behave so out of the way!

1918 K. Rhodes Sands of Gold (1919) xviii. 251 Nothing is in the least likely to happen out of the way. Go just for an hour, if you like—but anyhow, go.

1964 R. Brautigan Confederate Gen. from Big Sur (1991) 27 ‘Sure,’ she said, without smiling or being embarrassed or acting out of the way or anything.

1995 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 28 May 11 Bouncers were not above the law and could be charged with assault if they behaved ‘out of the way’.

?1510 T. More tr. G. Pico della Mirandola in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. d.iii To sey we do euell but if we do so. this is farr owt of the way.

1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde xvi. 25 Also it shal not be out of the way [Fr. hors de propos], to say that [etc.].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 358 A pox a drowning, tis cleane out of the way.

1676 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern 106 This rule of reckoning..will not be much out of the way, if you reckon the money by the Tables of rebate.

1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis 1299/1 I think it not out of the way, non alienum puto.

a1699 W. Temple Ess. Health & Long Life in Wks. (1720) I. 273 Mine [sc. my three wishes] were Health, Peace, and fair Weather; which, though out of the way among young Men, yet perhaps might pass well enough among old.

1765 Museum Rusticum 4 99 The writers of them fell entirely in [with] my opinions, odd, unaccountable, and out of the way as they may appear to many.

1835 Penruddock I. xiv. 252 He did not immediately recover his surprise; while the idea that it was not so very preposterous, so very out of the way to be mistaken for one so handsome..passed over his mind.

1873 M. Oliphant Innocent III. xx. 331 If anything out of the way turns up, nobody will remember that such a thing ever happened.

1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham xxvi. 476 Did you ever know me to do anything out of the way?

1892 Nation (N.Y.) 54 232/3 Therefore much that still passes current as opinion about him is pitifully out of the way.

1910 Proc. Connecticut State Med. Soc. 74 When you consider that we get this journal in addition to what we have had previously..the amount does not seem out of the way.

1986 K. Amis Old Devils x. 292 You noticed nothing out of the way but I thought he looked awful.

2013 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 24 June 1 You never saw anything out of the way... You never saw any conflict in the family?

1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. clvj^v Their entente and secret councell is only to brynge all vnder their power and to take out of the waye whosoever letteth themor is to myghty for them.

c1535 F. Bygod Treat. Impropriations sig. C j As moche as lyeth in you, both god and all preachynge, and all other holy thynges ben clene extyncte..and specyally this holy ordynaunce [sc. preaching] put out of the waye.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward V f. xvii^v When..these other lordes and knightes were thus beheaded and ryd out of the waye.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxxij He doubted lest he might be brought out of the waie, as other dukes of Albany before had serued the heires of Scotlande.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxxxviij^v Of Luther and the rest, there is no hope vnlesse they be dispatched out of the way [L. nisi opprimantur].

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1716/1 Y^e said wicked Gardiner..bente all his deuises, to bringe this oure happy and deare soueraigne out of the waye.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 187 If this do not cure him [sc. a dog] within seuen daies, then let him be knocked on the head, or hanged out of the way.

1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour iii. iii. sig. G4^v I am halfe Hang'd out of the way already.

1679 Trials of Green, etc. for Murder of Sir E. Godfrey 30 He told me there was a Gentleman that was to be put out of the Way; that was the Phrase he used, he did not really say Murther him.

1757 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Earl of Eglinton (1885) 313 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4575) XLIV. 1 Old Admiral Holbourn, who curst and swore..because Byng was not Shot out of the Way.

1839 G. P. R. James Huguenot I. iv. 131 I would tie him to a tree and shoot him at once out of the way.

1867 J. A. Froude Short Stud. (ed. 2) 114 The Earl of Moray..was put out of the Way by an assassin.

1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 123 The living have their rivals and detractors, but when a man is out of the way, the honour and good-will which he receives is unalloyed.

1949 Youth's Instructor 9 Apr. 26/1 A small black mongrel, which was brought in by the owner to be put out of the way because it was so unmanageable.

1996 A. Barrett Agrippina (1999) vi. 95 If he showed any inclination to go back on his word they had his permission to put him out of the way.

1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. 366 Capons and Geese would not be founde, Egges were hard to come by, Sheepe dyed of the rotte, Swine were out of the way, a Quarter of Wheate, Beanes, and Pease, were solde for twentie Shillings.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iv. 80 I'st lost? i'st gone? speake, is it out o'the way ? View more context for this quotation

1673 E. Coles Pract. Disc. God's Sovereignty 272 If your helmet be out of the way, and fiery darts come pouring down; Hold up your Faith between your head and them.

1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Gggg2^v/2 To be out of the Way, or out of its proper Place, être dispersé, égaré.

1596 J. Harington Apol. sig. Nvij^v Oh I remember him, he had a poore neighbour once dwelt at Holmeby, that made foure verses if I haue not forgot them, were fortie shillings out of his way.

1616 J. Chamberlain in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 405 He did the lady a great piece of service to get her out of the Tower, where, if she had been at this time, it might chance been out of her way fifty or three score thousand pounds, at least.

1633 J. Shirley Gamester (1637) iii. F 3 A curse upon these reeling Dice, that last in and in Was out of my way ten peeces.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xxix. 101 It is like to be out of my way 3000l.

1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Gggg2^v/2 'Tis much out of my Way, or to my Loss, cela m'a fait grand tort, ou j'y ai beaucoup perdu.

c1750 J. Nelson Jrnl. (1836) 23 Though it may be ten pounds out of my way to be turned out of my work at this time of the year.

1776 Coll. Most Remarkable & Interesting Trials II. 57/1 She said it would be five hundred pounds out of my way if I did not come to her.

1819 Ann. Reg. 1818 App. to Chron. 324/1 Brown, you are the poaching rascal I want: you have been pounds out of my way, and I will blow a hole through you.

1889 Eng. Mechanic 21 June 357/2 Deafness has been hundreds of pounds out of my way, since it was just sufficient to cause me to give up my paper reporting.

1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters i. xxvii. f. xlii^v/1 Wherof syth I haue shewed you the contrary and remoued y^t blocke oute of the way for stumblyng, we shall I think sone se y^e tother poynt, that Cryst commaundith vs to byleue his chyrch.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. lvii. C Take vp what ye can out of the waye, that ledeth to my people [1611 King James take vp the stumbling blocke out of the way of my people].

1641 G. Walker Hist. Creation iii. 40 I will briefly shew the weaknesse of the best arguments, which are brought to the contrary; and so will remove those clouds and mists out of the way, which seem to eclipse the truth.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. ii. 10 The Lady hath Time to adjust herself, or to remove any disagreeable Object out of the Way; for there are some Situations, in which nice and delicate Women would not be discovered by their Husbands. View more context for this quotation

1820 Niles' Weekly Reg. 2 Sept. 2/1 I saw a stout negro fellow..tugging at it, and he finally succeeded in putting it out of the way.

1892 F. Barrett Out of Jaws of Death iv. 26 It was a harder job than I expected to move the flagstone and get it out of the way.

1919 K. Pearson in C. Goring Eng. Convict Introd. 12 [Goring] clears out of the way for ever the tangled and luxuriant growths of the Lombrosian School.

1996 C. Brookmyre Quite Ugly One Morning xxiii. 152 He was able to..use his elbow to nudge it out of the way.

1554 J. Mason Let. 9 Nov. in P. F. Tytler Eng. under Edward VI & Mary (1839) II. 452 (modernized text) I had for answer, that I should not be out of the way in the afternoon, for that he intended to signify unto me his pleasure for answer to my request.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxxiij^v Duke Fridericke appointed certein..to conueighe Luther out of the way, in to some secrete place.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. i. 36 Ile deuise a meane to draw the Moore Out of the way . View more context for this quotation

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 84 They seeing..that it was impossible to save the Prince, kept out of the way.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiv. 389 This seemed to us then to be a place out of the way, where we might lye snug for a while.

1741 H. Barnes Notes Cases Court of Common Pleas 1732–9 227 'Tis plain he kept out of the Way to prevent being arrested.

1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. ii. 71 In order to make people resort to a place which was so much out of the way.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 194 Out of the way, a thief who knows that he is sought after by the traps on some information and consequently goes out of town or otherwise conceals himself is said by his palls to be out of the way for so and so.

1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxviii. 442 He had speculated too much and was keeping out of the way.

1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. i. xii. 78 The Leslies don't mix with the county; and Rood lies very much out of the way.

1998 G. Phinn Other Side of Dale (1999) xvii. 183 ‘We don't generally get visitors up here.’ ‘You are a bit out of the way, certainly.’

1831 E. L. Hazelius tr. J. H. Jung-Stilling Life ii. 15 All laboured with redoubled diligence, to get the work out of the way.

1857 S. Bowles Let. 16 Feb. in G. S. Merriam Life & Times S. Bowles (1885) I. xxv. 291 We should get those amendments out of the way before we strike out for the summer campaign.

1958 S. Beckett From Abandoned Work 18 So on to this second day and get it over and out of the way and on to the next.

1995 Victorian Soc. Ann. 1994 28 Once this matter was out of the way, the Prince continued quietly to buy land with the Surplus.

2010 Daily Tel. 24 June 2/6 Larger companies would be the first to auto-enrol staff, to ensure that ‘teething problems’ were out of the way by the time that family firms were forced to provide pensions.

1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xxi. 122 But only wait until the States are restored and the ‘Blue Coats’ are out of the way.

1917 Paper Maker's Jrnl. Aug. 17/1 The greatest enemy of our local is out of the way now and the skunks who depended on him to let them work in this mill without joining the union are beginning to get a case of cold feet.

1929 ‘E. Queen’ Roman Hat Myst. vi. 89 Now that Field is out of the way, I'm going to have his files and records gone over with a fine-comb.

1983 ‘J. Gash’ Sleepers of Erin (1984) xxiv. 187 Jason was out of the way—maybe only temporarily, because he might not have croaked, but for sure he'd not be chasing.

2008 R. D. Ondo Lore of Lake Erie xiii. 63 Richard Stern caused us a bunch of problems the last time we dredged. Now that he's out of the way, things will work out.