| 单词 | the gainest way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe gainest way a. Of roads or directions: Near, straight; esp. in superlative form, as the gainest way. [Compare Old Norse hinn gegnsta veg accusative.] ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [adjective] > of roads or directions: straight, direct gaina1000 evenc1175 readyc1330 graith1352 nigh1516 right1567 near1579 forerighta1640 bain1864 a1000 Epistola Alexandri Ðe ða genran wegas cuðan ðara siðfato [L. qui brevitates itinerum noverant]. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 319 Sir Jon tok the gayn stie. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4189 Þei..went forþ on here way wiȝtli & fast; Euer þe geynest gatis to goo to þe soþe. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 775 To the south ȝett the gaynest way he drew. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 44 Miles, by the gainest way. 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties ii. f. 79 Socrates did saie: this to be the nerest, and (as it wer) the gaine waie to glorie. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. App. lxxxi Which I conceive no gainer way is done Then by [etc.]. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 17 [She] to the glen the gainest gate can fare. 1892 Ld. Tennyson Churchwarden & Curate iv Fur I wur a Baptis wonst..Till I fun that it warn't not the gaäinist waäy to the narra Gaäte. 1898 N.E.D. at Gain Midland Proverb Roundabout is sometimes gainest. < as lemmas |
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