pavev.

Brit.

/peɪv/, U.S.

/peɪv/

Forms: Middle English pafvyd (past participle), Middle English pavy, Middle English payve, Middle English–1600s paue, Middle English– pave, 1800s– paven (past participle, archaic and literary); Scottish pre-1700 pavye, 1700s– pave.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French paver.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman paver, pavier and Old French, Middle French paver (c1160 in Old French, chiefly in past participle pavé; French paver), ultimately < classical Latin pavīre to beat, strike, ram down to make a flat surface (of unknown origin). Compare Old Occitan, Occitan pavar (14th cent.).In Middle English prefixed and unprefixed forms of the past participle forms are attested (see y- prefix). Slightly earlier currency of both the verb and paved adj. is probably implied by the following place name (probably showing the sense ‘stream with a gravelly bed’: see C. Hough ME paved in Cheshire Field-Name in Notes & Queries (2001) 246 371):1313 in J. M. Dodgson Place-names Cheshire (1971) III. 322 Le pauedelake [a field-name].

1. transitive (frequently in passive).

a. To lay paving, a pavement, or (later also) any hard surfacing material on (a road, floor, etc.); (also) to tile (a floor). Frequently with with. Also occasionally intransitive: to lay paving.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > pave

pavea1350

pathe?a1425

spacea1552

pavement1559

impave1833

to flag over1884

a1350 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 11 (MED) Þe barouns of fraunce þider conne gon, Into þe paleis þat paued is wiþ ston.

c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 488 (MED) After þat stiȝ lay a strete, Clene I-pauet wiþ grete.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 8910 Alle þe stretes of þe cete, and þe lanes, War even paved with precyouse stanes.

1426–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 66 Þe first day of Iuyl a pavier and his man to paue in lone lane at þe west dore.

a1500 De Passione in Laudate (1935) 13 45 (MED) Thei brouȝt him in to an house that was paued with stone.

a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 389 Euery pavyer þat paveth within þis Cite..make goode & sufficient pavyng, vppon the peyn to pave hit newe at his owne charge.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1661 A flore..was fret all of fyne stones, Pauyt prudly all with proude colours.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xvi. 17 b The court is pavid with Mosaique stone.

c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) l. 194 Y-paued wiþ peynt til.

1602 T. Lodge tr. Josephus Hist. Antiq. Iewes xx. viii, in tr. Josephus Wks. 525 Permitting them..to paue their citie with broad stone.

1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 399 The Tomb is pav'd with Tiles of Cheney.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 104 Some pave their Walks all over with large Pibbles or Flint-stones, and lay their Gravel on the Top of them.

a1779 D. Garrick in R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough (1781) Prol. The streets..were pav'd with stones, Which, aided by a hackney coach, half broke your bones.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 187 The streets are every-where paved with a hard kind of bricks, known by us under the name of clinkers.

1893 E. E. Hale New Eng. Boyhood 3 The more important business streets of this town of Boston were paved in the middle with round stones from the neighboring beaches.

1913 Times 1 Feb. 6/3 The Kentish rag stone he sold to pave the London streets.

1988 Kitchener–Waterloo (Ont.) Record 8 June c4/4 Pope John Paul's visit in 1984..sparked a major effort to pave the potholes of some of St. John's narrow and winding streets.

b. figurative and in extended use. To cover with a layer of something so as to form a pavement-like surface; to cover completely.Proverb: (the road to) hell is paved with good intentions: see hell n. and int. Phrases 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with or as with specific other things

clodc1420

pavea1425

foamc1540

overstain1559

thatch1589

sinew1592

to ice over1602

curd1654

overfleece1717

fleece1730

stucco1774

oversmoke1855

bepaper1861

beboulder1862

overflower1876

sack1880

overglass1883

to board over1885

pad1885

lather1917

cobweb1928

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 126 And with that watir, that ran so cler, My face I wyssh; Tho saugh I well The botme paved everydell With gravel.

c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 7214 (MED) Priamus wolde that Troye hadde be paued With hethen hond and euery a membre.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iii. vii. 79 Ile ride too morrow a mile, And my way shalbe paued with English faces.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Cor. i. 26) Hence it grew to a Proverb.., That Hell was paved with Priests shaven crowns, and great mens head-pieces.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 291 The Cave, though large, was dark, the dismal Flore Was pav'd with mangled Limbs and putrid Gore.

1771 J. Wesley Serm. ii. ii. §9 ‘Hell is paved’ saith one ‘with good intentions’.

1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama xiv. 147 Their self-devoted bodies there they lay To pave his chariot-way.

1845 R. Owen Odontography I. 96 The whole of the broad alveolar margin of the intermaxillary bones is paved with rounded molars.

1887 I. Randall Lady's Ranche Life Montana 154 Van grumbles,..and says ‘the ground is paved with pigs’.

1908 E. M. Forster Room with View vii. 118 Charlotte..knelt by the side of an empty trunk, vainly endeavouring to pave it with books of varying thickness and size.

1953 J. Wain Hurry on Down (1960) 127 ‘The road to Fleet Street,’ said Charles with mock solemnity, ‘is paved with disappointments.’

1973 J. Merrill Thousand & Second Night in Nights & Days 15 Free me, I pray, to go in search of joys Unembroidered by your high, soft voice, Along that stony path the senses pave.

1995 Time 14 Aug. 4/1 The road to parenthood is often paved with missteps and disappointments.

c. paved with (also †of) gold (literal and figurative, of a city, its streets, etc.).In later use frequently in contexts suggesting credulity on the part of a person who believed in the ready availability of wealth in a given city, as in the old English fairy tale of Dick Whittington.

ΚΠ

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 331 Ffor al the weyes & paament Wer ypavyd all off gold.

1582 R. Parsons First Bk. Christian Exercise i. x. 154 The streetes of the citie were paued with golde, interlayed also with pearls and pretiouse stones.

1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 219 It [sc. the city] was builded of Pearls and precious Stones, also the Street thereof was paved with Gold .

1750 P. Shaw Reflector iv. vii. 351 Some Christians consider..Heaven as a City paved with Gold, or precious Stones.

1798 G. Colman Heir at Law i. ii. 17 Oh, London is a fine town..where all the streets are paved with gold, and all the maidens pretty.

1851 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 12 May 1/3 He has become a resident..in that city, whose very streets are paved with gold.

1899 E. H. Hickey Michael Villiers 139 I..had oftentimes been told How the streets of London Town they are surely paved with gold; I should bask in Fortune's smile.

1946 I. Gershwin Land of Opportunitee in Compl. Lyrics (1993) 346/3 They had been told That in ev'ry citee of the U.S.A. The streets were paved with gold.

1992 D. Lessing Afr. Laughter 43 He stared at me, unhappy, because he wanted to live in London where the streets are paved with gold.

a. transitive. Of a material: to cover (a surface) so as to form a pavement. Also figurative and in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > pave > cover as a pavement

pave?1537

?1537 R. Benese Bk. Measurynge Lande Contents It sheweth also the maner of measurynge of a chambre flore, or of a pauemente, to knowe howe many foote of borde or stone wyll borde or paue it.

1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Satyre i. sig. C8 They had more Rubies then wold paue Cheapside.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ii. xii. 19 Like the lacteall stones which heaven pave.

1763 G. Colman Philaster iv. i. 46 The Rocks of Pearl That pave the Court of Neptune.

1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 167 The rose leaves, like flakes of crimson snow [printed now], Paved the turf.

1885 R. L. Stevenson Child's Garden of Verses i. xxxv Sailing blossoms, silver fishes, Pave pools as clear as air.

1907 J. Davidson Triumph of Mammon v. ii. 142 The myriad suns that pave the Milky Way.

1986 L. Erdrich Beet Queen ii. 37 Frozen runnels paved the ground.

2002 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 19 May (Texas Mag.) 14 The pheasant, black as it was, made me think of the tar that paved the path to our front door.

†b. transitive. To form a pavement beneath. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [verb (transitive)] > form pavement for

pave1821

1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 15 The air-like waves Of wonder-level dream, whose tremulous floor Paved her light steps.

3. transitive. to pave the way and variants: to bring about a necessary preliminary circumstance for some future event, etc.; to facilitate or lead on to a result or object in view. Also with to.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > do or accomplish something easily [verb (intransitive)] > facilitate progress

to make waya1200

to prepare the way1526

to clear the coast1530

to pave the wayc1585

to oil the wheels1645

c1585 T. Cartwright in R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 86 The way will bee paued and plained for mutuall entercourse.

1604 T. Bilson Suruey Christs Sufferings 511 Brought in of purpose to paue the way for your new found fansies.

1633 W. Ames Fresh Suit against Human Ceremonies ii. 147 [They] paved the way for invocation of Saints in heaven, and evocation of men out of Hell.

1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son (1896) iv. xxvi. 99 More able..to have paved a Way to future Felicity.

1747 G. Berkeley Let. in Wks. (1871) III. 490 This may pave the way for its general use in all fevers.

1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. vi. 120 That Precedent has paved the Way to leave the Whole of that Fund at the Mercy of the Crown.

1801 Port Folio 24 Oct. 338/2 It was intended by the author to pave his way to fortune and favour.

1813 Ld. Byron Let. 28 Aug. (1974) III. 101 If it has had any success, that also will prove that the public are orientalizing, and pave the path for you.

1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 250 Addressing audiences to pave the way to the great work they ultimately accomplished.

1943 R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 7 The air has invariably been used to pave the way for the Army.

1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 8 July a23 There are..complaints that Thatcher's ‘doctrinaire’ monetarist policies are paving the path to political repudiation.

1994 Sci. News 26 Nov. 356/3 Such research could also pave the way for germline gene therapy.

†4. transitive. To render (a part of the body) hard or insensitive like a pavement. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > render physically insensible [verb (transitive)]

astone1340

dead1382

stony1382

dazea1400

astonish1530

benumb1530

mortifya1533

numb1561

dozen1576

pave1635

deaden1684

torpedoa1772

torpefy1808

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. viii. 34 But when the frequent Soule-departing Bell Has pav'd their eares with her familiar knell.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 9 How can you drink your Tea so hot? Sure your Mouth's pav'd.

5. transitive. slang. To write interlinear or marginal translations in (a Latin or Greek text). Now rare.Apparently only used in some British public schools.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > translate [verb (transitive)] > insert between lines

overline1845

pave1877

1877 [implied in: C. Wordsworth Scholae Academicae ix. 101/2 Boys in the sixth [were] ‘set on’ in turn to translate such authors as Theocritus for the benefit of the others, among whom the lazy or dilatory would trust to this as sufficient preparation for their own innings which was to follow,..a questionable practice, for which I believe ‘t'other-school notion’ is paving; in America, illuminating. (at paving n. 4)].

1888 [implied in: H. Logeman Rule of St. Benet p. xxxvi Dr. Thompson..said that the Rugby boys' slang term for this process was paving—paving smooth (I suppose) the rough road of learning Latin. (at paving n. 4)].

1897 A. Sidgwick in P. A. Barnett Teaching & Organisation 308 Cases of dishonesty are pretty certain to turn up..to ‘pave’ the text, i.e. write the English down at the side.

1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 52 A common word of special meaning is pave, which denotes the practice of writing the English meaning above words in a Greek or Latin text.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pave
释义	paven.² Brit. /peɪv/, U.S. /peɪv/ Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly formed within English, by conversion. Probably partly formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: pave v.; pavement n. Etymology: Probably partly < pave v., and partly shortened < pavement n. Compare earlier pavé n.¹Some examples may represent instances of pavé n.¹ with omission of the acute accent. colloquial and literary. 1. = pavement n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > [noun] > paving > types of paved work pavementa1300 pavagec1376 paving1448 paithmentc1480 plainstones1611 pitching1693 pitchwork1758 pebble paving1819 pave1835 slabbing1893 concrete1911 crazy paving1923 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > foot(-)path > by side of street or road plainstones1611 flanker1682 side pavement1685 footwalk1701 sideway1738 sidewalk1739 pavement1743 banquette1772 footpath1776 trottoir1789 walkway1792 parapet1795 causeway1796 flag-way1800 flags1801 pave1835 flagstone1840 flagging1851 walk1913 pedway1965 1835 Southern Literary Messenger 1 357/2 I met a friend on the pave last week. 1845 Amer. Rev. Jan. 244 Crystal were the pillars thereof, gems and pearls were scattered on its pave. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 58 I takes my pitch last night on Fleet pave, then..a swell was sweet on me for a tail. 1881 W. Wilkins Songs of Study 42 The Pit and the horseshoes o'er it Had smiles for their happy pave. 1913 J. Service Memorables Robin Cummell 109 The vera caddies..gapit in silence as they floated owre the pave. 1988 J. Stephenson To you with Love (BNC) 13 Thud of leather—dull on pave, Sharp-snapped command—young heads held high. 2. A paving stone, block, etc. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > stone as material for paving > a paving stone paving stone1474 pavement stone1575 pavement1589 pavior1611 paver1696 pavestone1810 paving slab1825 paving flag1845 roadblock1862 pave1897 1897 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 May 28/1 I have seen the Gippsland jinkers hauling paves for London streets. 1994 Business Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 29 July 2 It makes paving stones, solid blocks, kerbs, turf paves, erosion control blocks and other concrete products. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pavev. Brit. /peɪv/, U.S. /peɪv/ Forms: Middle English pafvyd (past participle), Middle English pavy, Middle English payve, Middle English–1600s paue, Middle English– pave, 1800s– paven (past participle, archaic and literary); Scottish pre-1700 pavye, 1700s– pave. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French paver. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman paver, pavier and Old French, Middle French paver (c1160 in Old French, chiefly in past participle pavé; French paver), ultimately < classical Latin pavīre to beat, strike, ram down to make a flat surface (of unknown origin). Compare Old Occitan, Occitan pavar (14th cent.).In Middle English prefixed and unprefixed forms of the past participle forms are attested (see y- prefix). Slightly earlier currency of both the verb and paved adj. is probably implied by the following place name (probably showing the sense ‘stream with a gravelly bed’: see C. Hough ME paved in Cheshire Field-Name in Notes & Queries (2001) 246 371):1313 in J. M. Dodgson Place-names Cheshire (1971) III. 322 Le pauedelake [a field-name]. 1. transitive (frequently in passive). a. To lay paving, a pavement, or (later also) any hard surfacing material on (a road, floor, etc.); (also) to tile (a floor). Frequently with with. Also occasionally intransitive: to lay paving. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > pave pavea1350 pathe?a1425 spacea1552 pavement1559 impave1833 to flag over1884 a1350 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 11 (MED) Þe barouns of fraunce þider conne gon, Into þe paleis þat paued is wiþ ston. c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 488 (MED) After þat stiȝ lay a strete, Clene I-pauet wiþ grete. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 8910 Alle þe stretes of þe cete, and þe lanes, War even paved with precyouse stanes. 1426–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 66 Þe first day of Iuyl a pavier and his man to paue in lone lane at þe west dore. a1500 De Passione in Laudate (1935) 13 45 (MED) Thei brouȝt him in to an house that was paued with stone. a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 389 Euery pavyer þat paveth within þis Cite..make goode & sufficient pavyng, vppon the peyn to pave hit newe at his owne charge. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1661 A flore..was fret all of fyne stones, Pauyt prudly all with proude colours. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xvi. 17 b The court is pavid with Mosaique stone. c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) l. 194 Y-paued wiþ peynt til. 1602 T. Lodge tr. Josephus Hist. Antiq. Iewes xx. viii, in tr. Josephus Wks. 525 Permitting them..to paue their citie with broad stone. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 399 The Tomb is pav'd with Tiles of Cheney. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 104 Some pave their Walks all over with large Pibbles or Flint-stones, and lay their Gravel on the Top of them. a1779 D. Garrick in R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough (1781) Prol. The streets..were pav'd with stones, Which, aided by a hackney coach, half broke your bones. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 187 The streets are every-where paved with a hard kind of bricks, known by us under the name of clinkers. 1893 E. E. Hale New Eng. Boyhood 3 The more important business streets of this town of Boston were paved in the middle with round stones from the neighboring beaches. 1913 Times 1 Feb. 6/3 The Kentish rag stone he sold to pave the London streets. 1988 Kitchener–Waterloo (Ont.) Record 8 June c4/4 Pope John Paul's visit in 1984..sparked a major effort to pave the potholes of some of St. John's narrow and winding streets. b. figurative and in extended use. To cover with a layer of something so as to form a pavement-like surface; to cover completely.Proverb: (the road to) hell is paved with good intentions: see hell n. and int. Phrases 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with or as with specific other things clodc1420 pavea1425 foamc1540 overstain1559 thatch1589 sinew1592 to ice over1602 curd1654 overfleece1717 fleece1730 stucco1774 oversmoke1855 bepaper1861 beboulder1862 overflower1876 sack1880 overglass1883 to board over1885 pad1885 lather1917 cobweb1928 a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 126 And with that watir, that ran so cler, My face I wyssh; Tho saugh I well The botme paved everydell With gravel. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 7214 (MED) Priamus wolde that Troye hadde be paued With hethen hond and euery a membre. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iii. vii. 79 Ile ride too morrow a mile, And my way shalbe paued with English faces. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Cor. i. 26) Hence it grew to a Proverb.., That Hell was paved with Priests shaven crowns, and great mens head-pieces. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 291 The Cave, though large, was dark, the dismal Flore Was pav'd with mangled Limbs and putrid Gore. 1771 J. Wesley Serm. ii. ii. §9 ‘Hell is paved’ saith one ‘with good intentions’. 1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama xiv. 147 Their self-devoted bodies there they lay To pave his chariot-way. 1845 R. Owen Odontography I. 96 The whole of the broad alveolar margin of the intermaxillary bones is paved with rounded molars. 1887 I. Randall Lady's Ranche Life Montana 154 Van grumbles,..and says ‘the ground is paved with pigs’. 1908 E. M. Forster Room with View vii. 118 Charlotte..knelt by the side of an empty trunk, vainly endeavouring to pave it with books of varying thickness and size. 1953 J. Wain Hurry on Down (1960) 127 ‘The road to Fleet Street,’ said Charles with mock solemnity, ‘is paved with disappointments.’ 1973 J. Merrill Thousand & Second Night in Nights & Days 15 Free me, I pray, to go in search of joys Unembroidered by your high, soft voice, Along that stony path the senses pave. 1995 Time 14 Aug. 4/1 The road to parenthood is often paved with missteps and disappointments. c. paved with (also †of) gold (literal and figurative, of a city, its streets, etc.).In later use frequently in contexts suggesting credulity on the part of a person who believed in the ready availability of wealth in a given city, as in the old English fairy tale of Dick Whittington. ΚΠ a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 331 Ffor al the weyes & paament Wer ypavyd all off gold. 1582 R. Parsons First Bk. Christian Exercise i. x. 154 The streetes of the citie were paued with golde, interlayed also with pearls and pretiouse stones. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 219 It [sc. the city] was builded of Pearls and precious Stones, also the Street thereof was paved with Gold . View more context for this quotation 1750 P. Shaw Reflector iv. vii. 351 Some Christians consider..Heaven as a City paved with Gold, or precious Stones. 1798 G. Colman Heir at Law i. ii. 17 Oh, London is a fine town..where all the streets are paved with gold, and all the maidens pretty. 1851 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 12 May 1/3 He has become a resident..in that city, whose very streets are paved with gold. 1899 E. H. Hickey Michael Villiers 139 I..had oftentimes been told How the streets of London Town they are surely paved with gold; I should bask in Fortune's smile. 1946 I. Gershwin Land of Opportunitee in Compl. Lyrics (1993) 346/3 They had been told That in ev'ry citee of the U.S.A. The streets were paved with gold. 1992 D. Lessing Afr. Laughter 43 He stared at me, unhappy, because he wanted to live in London where the streets are paved with gold. 2. a. transitive. Of a material: to cover (a surface) so as to form a pavement. Also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > pave > cover as a pavement pave?1537 ?1537 R. Benese Bk. Measurynge Lande Contents It sheweth also the maner of measurynge of a chambre flore, or of a pauemente, to knowe howe many foote of borde or stone wyll borde or paue it. 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Satyre i. sig. C8 They had more Rubies then wold paue Cheapside. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ii. xii. 19 Like the lacteall stones which heaven pave. 1763 G. Colman Philaster iv. i. 46 The Rocks of Pearl That pave the Court of Neptune. 1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 167 The rose leaves, like flakes of crimson snow [printed now], Paved the turf. 1885 R. L. Stevenson Child's Garden of Verses i. xxxv Sailing blossoms, silver fishes, Pave pools as clear as air. 1907 J. Davidson Triumph of Mammon v. ii. 142 The myriad suns that pave the Milky Way. 1986 L. Erdrich Beet Queen ii. 37 Frozen runnels paved the ground. 2002 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 19 May (Texas Mag.) 14 The pheasant, black as it was, made me think of the tar that paved the path to our front door. †b. transitive. To form a pavement beneath. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [verb (transitive)] > form pavement for pave1821 1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 15 The air-like waves Of wonder-level dream, whose tremulous floor Paved her light steps. 3. transitive. to pave the way and variants: to bring about a necessary preliminary circumstance for some future event, etc.; to facilitate or lead on to a result or object in view. Also with to. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > do or accomplish something easily [verb (intransitive)] > facilitate progress to make waya1200 to prepare the way1526 to clear the coast1530 to pave the wayc1585 to oil the wheels1645 c1585 T. Cartwright in R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 86 The way will bee paued and plained for mutuall entercourse. 1604 T. Bilson Suruey Christs Sufferings 511 Brought in of purpose to paue the way for your new found fansies. 1633 W. Ames Fresh Suit against Human Ceremonies ii. 147 [They] paved the way for invocation of Saints in heaven, and evocation of men out of Hell. 1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son (1896) iv. xxvi. 99 More able..to have paved a Way to future Felicity. 1747 G. Berkeley Let. in Wks. (1871) III. 490 This may pave the way for its general use in all fevers. 1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. vi. 120 That Precedent has paved the Way to leave the Whole of that Fund at the Mercy of the Crown. 1801 Port Folio 24 Oct. 338/2 It was intended by the author to pave his way to fortune and favour. 1813 Ld. Byron Let. 28 Aug. (1974) III. 101 If it has had any success, that also will prove that the public are orientalizing, and pave the path for you. 1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 250 Addressing audiences to pave the way to the great work they ultimately accomplished. 1943 R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 7 The air has invariably been used to pave the way for the Army. 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 8 July a23 There are..complaints that Thatcher's ‘doctrinaire’ monetarist policies are paving the path to political repudiation. 1994 Sci. News 26 Nov. 356/3 Such research could also pave the way for germline gene therapy. †4. transitive. To render (a part of the body) hard or insensitive like a pavement. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > render physically insensible [verb (transitive)] astone1340 dead1382 stony1382 dazea1400 astonish1530 benumb1530 mortifya1533 numb1561 dozen1576 pave1635 deaden1684 torpedoa1772 torpefy1808 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. viii. 34 But when the frequent Soule-departing Bell Has pav'd their eares with her familiar knell. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 9 How can you drink your Tea so hot? Sure your Mouth's pav'd. 5. transitive. slang. To write interlinear or marginal translations in (a Latin or Greek text). Now rare.Apparently only used in some British public schools. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > translate [verb (transitive)] > insert between lines overline1845 pave1877 1877 [implied in: C. Wordsworth Scholae Academicae ix. 101/2 Boys in the sixth [were] ‘set on’ in turn to translate such authors as Theocritus for the benefit of the others, among whom the lazy or dilatory would trust to this as sufficient preparation for their own innings which was to follow,..a questionable practice, for which I believe ‘t'other-school notion’ is paving; in America, illuminating. (at paving n. 4)]. 1888 [implied in: H. Logeman Rule of St. Benet p. xxxvi Dr. Thompson..said that the Rugby boys' slang term for this process was paving—paving smooth (I suppose) the rough road of learning Latin. (at paving n. 4)]. 1897 A. Sidgwick in P. A. Barnett Teaching & Organisation 308 Cases of dishonesty are pretty certain to turn up..to ‘pave’ the text, i.e. write the English down at the side. 1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 52 A common word of special meaning is pave, which denotes the practice of writing the English meaning above words in a Greek or Latin text. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.²1835v.a1350
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