英语词汇“to make way”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

g. to make way.

(a)

(i) To clear a space or path; to remove obstacles to progress; to facilitate passage or entrance. Frequently with for (formerly also †to or indirect object). Also figurative. [Compare Anglo-Norman faire veie and Old French, Middle French faire voie, frequently with a ‘to’ or an indirect object (c1193 in se faire veie to clear a path for oneself).]

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

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > open by freeing of obstruction > open the way for something

to make waya1200

to give gate toc1330

to open a door to or for1670

to open out1789

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 91 (MED) Ðo þe þe weie makeden biforen him bien folkes lorþeawes.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 43 Þus heode sichðe bi uoren & makede wei to uuel lust.

a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 533 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 316 Byfore þe cours þo stuarde comes þen, Þe seruer hit next of alle kyn men Mays way and stondes by syde, Tyl alle be serued at þat tyde.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxxii. 655 Gawein com thourgh the presse makinge wey with the trenchaunt suerde.

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 68^v And the fift or odde Crane in maner of a persiue sterne, to make the other way in the Ayre, flieth all alone before.

1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 184 They were carried in little chayres vpon mens backes, and the Captaine..before them making way.

c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2549 Wher gold makes way Ther is no interruption.

1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 107 Hee seemes to thinke..that vertue had neede of delight, to make way for her into the soule.

1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §140 All the World forwardly joyn to oppose and defeat them: whilst the open, fair, wise Man has every Body to make way for him, and goes directly to his Business.

1714 A. Boyer Polit. State Great Brit. Sept. 255 The Two Marshals on Horseback, with their Men on Foot, to make Way.

1796 F. Burney Camilla III. vi. xi. 363 The Major could scarcely make way to her: the two men of the ton would not quit her, and Sir Sedley Clarendel appeared openly devoted to her.

1840 Amer. Misc. 2 279/1 The princess..ordered her lacquey to make way for her through the crowd.

1893 Month July 362 Two other subdeacons and an acolyte in an alb, with an oblationary to make way for them.

1917 Musical Q. 3 627 The walls of the old town, already overflowing its ancient ramparts, which were demolished in 1859 to make way for the Ring.

1979 J. Harvey Plate Shop vii. 34 Guidance was given and way made for the two blind telephonists to a sheltered corner table.

2007 Esquire Nov. 154/1 He claims to have discontinued the practice of closing whole streets to make way for his motorcade.

(ii) In imperative use. Cf. sense B. 1. [In quots. a1382 and 1531 apparently based on a misinterpretation of post-classical Latin viam facite (imperative plural) build a road (in viam facite, praebete iter build a road, prepare the way (Vulgate: Isaiah 57:14), after Hebrew sōllū-sōllū pannū-ḏāreḵ ‘build up, build up, prepare a highway’, lit. ‘cast up, cast up, prepare the way’ (in the passage translated); compare Coverdale's translation of the same passage: Make redy, make redy, and clense þe strete (1535)).]

ΚΠ

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. lvii. 14 Weie maketh, ȝyueth goyng, bowith doun fro the path.

1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye sig. O^v Make waye & geue rome.

a1669 J. Howard Eng. Mounsieur (1674) v. ii. 62 French. Make way English Clown. Wil. Wous, but we won't.

a1743 D. Neal Hist. Puritans (1855) II. iii. ix. 62/2 The passage being narrow, the beadle cried out, ‘Make way for Mr. Vice-chancellor’, which the visiters did.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. xxii. 370 Their Cryer calls out, Make way for the grand Jury.

1817 ‘H. Hedgehog’ Pavilion I. 143 Make way! make way! that they may have elbow-room and ear-room to attend to my master's lecture!

1902 W. M. Dixon Trinity Coll., Dublin vi. 137 Make way for the gentleman of the College!

1992 G. Vanderhaeghe Things as they Are? 72 Make way! Make way! Fighter coming through!

†(iii) With to, for, or infinitive. To make possible, facilitate; to lead to. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

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

to make way1559

1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale ix. v. f. 207 Al soche opinions be well reproued, whiche made waie [L. fenestram aperuerunt], for the inducyng of heresies and sectes, so diuerse and daungerous, that if a wiseman might liue twoo hundred yeres, he were not able to haue a perfecte iudgemente in them.

1572 A. Golding tr. H. Bullinger Confut. Popes Bull f. 33^v Not onely the Bishops of Rome, but also the Bishops of other Churches through the worlde..brought such other thinges of the same sort into the Church, which made way for worser thinges.

1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie iii. 15 All those exercises which confirm memorie, & make waie to further knowledge.

1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 14 And this will not be unusefull to consider since it makes way to shew to what end they appeare and what they..can doe for us.

1680 W. Temple Ess. Cure of Gout in Miscellanea 194 About which time [sc. the age of forty] the natural heat beginning to decay, makes way for those distempers.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 417 This made way to more desperate undertakings.

1764 J. Murray Hist. Relig. (ed. 2) II. vi. 374 This made way for a farther display of Wolsey's power and influence.

1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. iv. 61 The dislocated state of Britain seems, next to its desertion by the Romans, to have made way for the conquerors.

†(b) Of ground: to admit of being travelled over or through. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > admit of being travelled over or through

to make wayc1300

c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Laud) (1901) 1489 Þe sond by gan to drye And hyt hym makede weye.

(c)

(i) To move from one's place so as to make room for someone else. Frequently with for.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > retire, withdraw, or retreat > out of the way

to give rooma1350

to stand backc1390

to make way?a1425

to stand aback?a1439

to make rooma1450

roomc1450

give wayc1515

to give by1633

shunt1869

to move over1914

extend2000

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 120 He commaundez þe lordes þat rydez nere him to make way þat þa men of religioun may comme to him.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. ii. 110 Make way vnrulie woman.

1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. ii. i. f. 29^v You two thus sustaining me, desiring to come neere the Saint to cure me; euery one will make way, and freely giue you leaue to goe on.

1682 W. Glanius New Voy. E.-Indies iii. 65 Persons of Quality, when they go to Court, or through the Town, they have carried before them a Lance and a Sword sheathed in a black Velvet Scabbard, and by these Ensigns oblige all the Street to make way for them.

1739 J. Campbell Trav. of Edward Brown 393 The Crowd made Way for him as he passed.

1767 B. Thornton tr. Plautus Treasure ii. iv, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies II. 33 Your great man if I meet, I make way for him, Give him the wall, shew him respect, but where The belly is concern'd, I will not yield An inch.

1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain I. vii. 127 A Portuguese or a Spaniard will seldom make way for a stranger, till called upon or pushed aside.

1868 ‘F. Fern’ Folly as it Flies 313 Let him rise again and make way for her, and then—let her bob off again.

1911 Gouldsbury & Sheane Great Plateau N. Rhodesia 259 If a young man sees his mother-in-law coming along the path, he must retreat into the bush and make way for her.

1978 T. Reich Mara (2001) ii. 91 He made way and they trooped by.

2002 Jewish Chron. 2 Aug. 39/4 Vehicles make way for a myriad street performers.

(ii) With for.

(1) Of a person: to vacate or be removed from a place or position in favour of a successor or substitute.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > vacate office [verb (intransitive)] > to leave a place for a successor

to make way1626

1626 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VIII. O.T. xxi. 453 How doth shee now (though too late) secretly chide her peeuish will, that had thus stript her of her royal crown, and made way for a more happy successor?

1648 M. Prideaux & J. Prideaux Easy & Compend. Introd. Hist. 268 He plungeth himselfe into all kinds of unnaturall Lust, which made him odious to his Subjects, and rendred him as a prey, to be intombed (as his father was) in the Paunches of wild beasts, to make way for a better successor, his sonne.

1655 D. M. in J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. sig. A5 Queen Elizabeth (after the glorious reign of fourty four years) by her death made way for King Iames her successor.

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 182 When my family..were thus turned out of doors, an old follower made way for them in his own cottage, and retired..to a cow-house hard by.

1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. xv. 364 If they [sc. the philosophers] had no better Gospel than that to preach, they must make way for those who had.

1896 Law Times 100 407/2 At Durham..[Sir Charles] refused to stand, and his refusal made way for the present Lord Herschell.

1904 H. O. Sturgis Belchamber ii. 17 He decided that his rôle in life would be to die young, and make way for the younger brother.

1956 Times 15 Mar. 16/6 One of the five forwards dropped after the England match, C. C. Meredith, now makes way for Prosser.

2007 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 22 Mar. f4 He recently became executive chairman of Workstream, making way for a new CEO.

(2) gen. To be replaced by.

ΚΠ

1797 I. Wood Let. to W. Pulteney 30 The fairest prospects were opening before them, to be at one stroke overturned, in order to make way for so hazardous an experiment?

a1828 H. Neele Lit. Remains (1829) 33 The tragedies of Shakspeare were driven from the stage to make way for those of Addison and Rowe.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 151 His castle..has been wantonly destroyed to make way for one of the barbarous official buildings of modern France.

1871 Sat. Rev. 5 Aug. 169/1 The whole Controllery might..be cast aside to make way for something better.

1917 G. Lee Diary 13 Feb. in Home Fires Burning (2006) 206 The Game Laws of England! They too have had to make way for the necessities of England at war.

1964 H. Rosenthal & J. Warrack Conc. Oxf. Dict. Opera 259/2 The halting dramatic progress, with the plot continually arrested to make way for demonstrations of vocal skill.

1997 Independent on Sunday 11 May (Real Life section) 5/1 Fat is now a masculine issue and laddish hedonism is rapidly making way for lardish narcissism.

2014 New Yorker 5 May 85/3 As autumn makes way for winter, a plot stirs.

(d) To make progress on a journey or voyage. Often with modifying word, as to make good (also much, little, etc.) way. Cf. to make headway at headway n. 3.

(i) Nautical. Cf. sense A. 14.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)]

wadeOE

agoOE

forthganga1000

forthgoOE

syeOE

kenc1275

to-stepc1275

vaunce1303

forthnima1325

passc1330

throc1330

forthpass1382

to pass forthc1384

to carry forthc1390

proceedc1392

to go alongc1400

to be forthwardc1430

get) groundc1436

to set onc1450

avauntc1460

pretend1481

to make way1490

advance?1507

to get forward1523

promove1570

to rid ground (also space)1572

to rid (the) way1581

progressa1586

to gather grounda1593

to make forth1594

to make on1597

to work up1603

perge1607

to work one's (also its) way1609

to pass on1611

to gain ground1625

to make its way1645

vadea1660

propagate1700

to gain one's way1777

further1789

to pull up1829

on1840

to make (up) ground1921

society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > make progress

enforcec1340

halec1400

to make way1490

heave1626

forge1769

walk1806

1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos xxvii. sig. Giiij^v Castyng her sight ferder towarde the see, she sawe the saylles wyth the slote of the shippes that made good waye.

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. viii. f. 61 Poris bent him self to encourage the mariners to hoyse by saile againe, and to make way with their oares into the sea.

1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 98 The windes and seas were high, yet we made some way.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. vi. 60 We seeing them prepare to assault vs, left our Oares and made way with our sayle to incounter them.

a1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis (1658) 1 The Winde..setled in the West for many dayes, so as we could make little or no way.

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 29 Fetch the log-line to try what way shee makes.

1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 49 We lost our Main top Mast, so that after the Storm was over we could not make any Way.

1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §155 Our vessels..made better Way in a rough sea.

1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow III. vii. 104 He stood up on the choak to ascertain what way she was making through the water.

1882 H. de Windt On Equator 75 The river, however, widened to nearly a mile in breadth..and we made better way.

1915 S. H. Carden in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1972) III. Compan. i. 405 Battleships preceded by sweepers making way up towards Narrows.

1975 J. Clavell Shōgun (1980) viii. 169 The oars dipped and pulled, but still the ship made no way.

1999 B. Unsworth Losing Nelson (2000) xiv. 162 The first days were calm; the ship made slow way, with light breezes puffing her sails.

(ii) gen.

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a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxlv. f. clxvi^v/2 He made waye towarde Turney, In so moche y^t the Uicount & his company demed them to haue returned to Turney.

?a1518 H. Watson Ualentyne & Orson (1555) xli. sig. Gg.i^v They made so muche waye that they passed ouer these, and ouer dyuers wodes.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A8^v He making speedy way through spersed ayre.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. i. 232 Waite you on him,..While I make way from hence to saue my life.

1725 J. Stevens Royal Treasury of Eng. 152 Before the Coach could make much way, that poor Fellow fell into another violent Fit of Laughter.

1743 H. Bracken Traveller's Pocket-farrier 16 This is a very bad Sort of a Breast for a Road-horse, or indeed, for any Horse that is designed to make good-way, as the Sailors term it.

1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i. in Lamia & Other Poems 160 Like a lithe serpent vast and muscular Making slow way, with head and neck convuls'd.

1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions i His companion..was making rapid way towards the point.

1912 A. Carter Seamless Robe (new ed.) xxxiv. 299 The turn of a sharp corner brought to view a farm cart making slow way towards them.

(iii) figurative and in extended use: to make progress, have success.

ΚΠ

?1561 I. D. tr. N. des Gallars True Rep. Doynges Assembly at Poyssy sig. B.ii He entreated also, and desyred Beza, that he would oftener talke and conferre with him, of these matters, that so at last, they myghte make some waye to peace and concorde.

a1628 J. Preston Treat. Effectuall Faith i. 29 in Breast-plate of Faith (1630) That which we said before to you, when wee shewed you the causes of the ineffectualnesse of faith, will make good way to this.

1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. Advt. to Rdr. sig. A2 He must have more of the Confidence of a modern Writer than falls to his Share, to think of making much way with the feeble Effort of his own Reason.

1798 T. Wallace Ess. Manufacturers of Ireland iii. 152 With these advantages against him, the Irish manufacturer has long struggled, and in despite of them has made much way.

1820 W. Scott Monastery I. Introd. Ep. 56 So great is the difference betwixt reading a thing one's self, making toilsome way through all the difficulties of manuscript, and, as the man says in the play, ‘having the same read to you’.

1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation iii. ii. 432 Should the system [of life annuities] not make any greater way than it has done, it may not..be worth objecting to.

1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men II. xviii. 59 And he made no more way with his wooing. That was stopped, apparently, altogether.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xxxix. 71 There are some signs the view is making way.

1902 Twentieth Cent. Nov. 785 Opera naturally has as yet made little way in the villages.

1999 S. Turow Personal Injuries 83 Rashul..tried to make way with Oretta, who had him by about thirty years.

†(e) To make a hole in or through something; to pierce. Also (with unto): to make an opening to. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into

holec1000

openOE

to make way1581

perforate?1660

to make (also have) the sun shine through1679

ventilate1917

1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades iv. 73 That of the staffe the steeled point made in his forehead way [Gk. πέρησε].

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Faire jour à, to make way vnto.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 154 With that word she stroke me on the head, And through the instrument my pate made way .

1639 R. Ward Animadversions of Warre i. xiv. ccl. 368 When the Enemy is come up at push of Pike, so close that the Pikemen can make no use of their Pikes, then these Flayles makes way through their Head-peeces and Armour.

†(f) With to. To approach (a person) with a view to establishing relations, entering into negotiations, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards or approach (a thing, place, or person) [verb (transitive)] > approach and speak to

to venture on (also uponc1528

boarda1547

accost1567

affront1598

to make way1609

aboard1611

1609 ‘Philagathus’ tr. ‘Denakol’ No Parl. Powder 15 There hath beene a miserable custome, in saying; that men might goe of, and by themselues, to God, euen as by Earles and Princes, they can make way to Kings.

1630 J. Shirley Gratefull Seruant iv. 58 I haue prepar'd him, and made way to the Abbot, For your reception.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 481 I already have made way To some Philistian Lords, with whom to treat About thy ransom.

单词	to make way
释义	> as lemmas to make way g. to make way. (a) (i) To clear a space or path; to remove obstacles to progress; to facilitate passage or entrance. Frequently with for (formerly also †to or indirect object). Also figurative. [Compare Anglo-Norman faire veie and Old French, Middle French faire voie, frequently with a ‘to’ or an indirect object (c1193 in se faire veie to clear a path for oneself).] 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 the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > open by freeing of obstruction > open the way for something to make waya1200 to give gate toc1330 to open a door to or for1670 to open out1789 a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 91 (MED) Ðo þe þe weie makeden biforen him bien folkes lorþeawes. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 43 Þus heode sichðe bi uoren & makede wei to uuel lust. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 533 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 316 Byfore þe cours þo stuarde comes þen, Þe seruer hit next of alle kyn men Mays way and stondes by syde, Tyl alle be serued at þat tyde. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxxii. 655 Gawein com thourgh the presse makinge wey with the trenchaunt suerde. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 68^v And the fift or odde Crane in maner of a persiue sterne, to make the other way in the Ayre, flieth all alone before. 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 184 They were carried in little chayres vpon mens backes, and the Captaine..before them making way. c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2549 Wher gold makes way Ther is no interruption. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 107 Hee seemes to thinke..that vertue had neede of delight, to make way for her into the soule. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §140 All the World forwardly joyn to oppose and defeat them: whilst the open, fair, wise Man has every Body to make way for him, and goes directly to his Business. 1714 A. Boyer Polit. State Great Brit. Sept. 255 The Two Marshals on Horseback, with their Men on Foot, to make Way. 1796 F. Burney Camilla III. vi. xi. 363 The Major could scarcely make way to her: the two men of the ton would not quit her, and Sir Sedley Clarendel appeared openly devoted to her. 1840 Amer. Misc. 2 279/1 The princess..ordered her lacquey to make way for her through the crowd. 1893 Month July 362 Two other subdeacons and an acolyte in an alb, with an oblationary to make way for them. 1917 Musical Q. 3 627 The walls of the old town, already overflowing its ancient ramparts, which were demolished in 1859 to make way for the Ring. 1979 J. Harvey Plate Shop vii. 34 Guidance was given and way made for the two blind telephonists to a sheltered corner table. 2007 Esquire Nov. 154/1 He claims to have discontinued the practice of closing whole streets to make way for his motorcade. (ii) In imperative use. Cf. sense B. 1. [In quots. a1382 and 1531 apparently based on a misinterpretation of post-classical Latin viam facite (imperative plural) build a road (in viam facite, praebete iter build a road, prepare the way (Vulgate: Isaiah 57:14), after Hebrew sōllū-sōllū pannū-ḏāreḵ ‘build up, build up, prepare a highway’, lit. ‘cast up, cast up, prepare the way’ (in the passage translated); compare Coverdale's translation of the same passage: Make redy, make redy, and clense þe strete (1535)).] ΚΠ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. lvii. 14 Weie maketh, ȝyueth goyng, bowith doun fro the path. 1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye sig. O^v Make waye & geue rome. a1669 J. Howard Eng. Mounsieur (1674) v. ii. 62 French. Make way English Clown. Wil. Wous, but we won't. a1743 D. Neal Hist. Puritans (1855) II. iii. ix. 62/2 The passage being narrow, the beadle cried out, ‘Make way for Mr. Vice-chancellor’, which the visiters did. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. xxii. 370 Their Cryer calls out, Make way for the grand Jury. 1817 ‘H. Hedgehog’ Pavilion I. 143 Make way! make way! that they may have elbow-room and ear-room to attend to my master's lecture! 1902 W. M. Dixon Trinity Coll., Dublin vi. 137 Make way for the gentleman of the College! 1992 G. Vanderhaeghe Things as they Are? 72 Make way! Make way! Fighter coming through! †(iii) With to, for, or infinitive. To make possible, facilitate; to lead to. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > do or accomplish something easily [verb (intransitive)] > facilitate progress > specifically of an action or event to make way1559 1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale ix. v. f. 207 Al soche opinions be well reproued, whiche made waie [L. fenestram aperuerunt], for the inducyng of heresies and sectes, so diuerse and daungerous, that if a wiseman might liue twoo hundred yeres, he were not able to haue a perfecte iudgemente in them. 1572 A. Golding tr. H. Bullinger Confut. Popes Bull f. 33^v Not onely the Bishops of Rome, but also the Bishops of other Churches through the worlde..brought such other thinges of the same sort into the Church, which made way for worser thinges. 1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie iii. 15 All those exercises which confirm memorie, & make waie to further knowledge. 1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 14 And this will not be unusefull to consider since it makes way to shew to what end they appeare and what they..can doe for us. 1680 W. Temple Ess. Cure of Gout in Miscellanea 194 About which time [sc. the age of forty] the natural heat beginning to decay, makes way for those distempers. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 417 This made way to more desperate undertakings. 1764 J. Murray Hist. Relig. (ed. 2) II. vi. 374 This made way for a farther display of Wolsey's power and influence. 1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. iv. 61 The dislocated state of Britain seems, next to its desertion by the Romans, to have made way for the conquerors. †(b) Of ground: to admit of being travelled over or through. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > admit of being travelled over or through to make wayc1300 c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Laud) (1901) 1489 Þe sond by gan to drye And hyt hym makede weye. (c) (i) To move from one's place so as to make room for someone else. Frequently with for. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > retire, withdraw, or retreat > out of the way to give rooma1350 to stand backc1390 to make way?a1425 to stand aback?a1439 to make rooma1450 roomc1450 give wayc1515 to give by1633 shunt1869 to move over1914 extend2000 ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 120 He commaundez þe lordes þat rydez nere him to make way þat þa men of religioun may comme to him. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. ii. 110 Make way vnrulie woman. View more context for this quotation 1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. ii. i. f. 29^v You two thus sustaining me, desiring to come neere the Saint to cure me; euery one will make way, and freely giue you leaue to goe on. 1682 W. Glanius New Voy. E.-Indies iii. 65 Persons of Quality, when they go to Court, or through the Town, they have carried before them a Lance and a Sword sheathed in a black Velvet Scabbard, and by these Ensigns oblige all the Street to make way for them. 1739 J. Campbell Trav. of Edward Brown 393 The Crowd made Way for him as he passed. 1767 B. Thornton tr. Plautus Treasure ii. iv, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies II. 33 Your great man if I meet, I make way for him, Give him the wall, shew him respect, but where The belly is concern'd, I will not yield An inch. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain I. vii. 127 A Portuguese or a Spaniard will seldom make way for a stranger, till called upon or pushed aside. 1868 ‘F. Fern’ Folly as it Flies 313 Let him rise again and make way for her, and then—let her bob off again. 1911 Gouldsbury & Sheane Great Plateau N. Rhodesia 259 If a young man sees his mother-in-law coming along the path, he must retreat into the bush and make way for her. 1978 T. Reich Mara (2001) ii. 91 He made way and they trooped by. 2002 Jewish Chron. 2 Aug. 39/4 Vehicles make way for a myriad street performers. (ii) With for. (1) Of a person: to vacate or be removed from a place or position in favour of a successor or substitute. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > vacate office [verb (intransitive)] > to leave a place for a successor to make way1626 1626 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VIII. O.T. xxi. 453 How doth shee now (though too late) secretly chide her peeuish will, that had thus stript her of her royal crown, and made way for a more happy successor? 1648 M. Prideaux & J. Prideaux Easy & Compend. Introd. Hist. 268 He plungeth himselfe into all kinds of unnaturall Lust, which made him odious to his Subjects, and rendred him as a prey, to be intombed (as his father was) in the Paunches of wild beasts, to make way for a better successor, his sonne. 1655 D. M. in J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. sig. A5 Queen Elizabeth (after the glorious reign of fourty four years) by her death made way for King Iames her successor. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 182 When my family..were thus turned out of doors, an old follower made way for them in his own cottage, and retired..to a cow-house hard by. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. xv. 364 If they [sc. the philosophers] had no better Gospel than that to preach, they must make way for those who had. 1896 Law Times 100 407/2 At Durham..[Sir Charles] refused to stand, and his refusal made way for the present Lord Herschell. 1904 H. O. Sturgis Belchamber ii. 17 He decided that his rôle in life would be to die young, and make way for the younger brother. 1956 Times 15 Mar. 16/6 One of the five forwards dropped after the England match, C. C. Meredith, now makes way for Prosser. 2007 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 22 Mar. f4 He recently became executive chairman of Workstream, making way for a new CEO. (2) gen. To be replaced by. ΚΠ 1797 I. Wood Let. to W. Pulteney 30 The fairest prospects were opening before them, to be at one stroke overturned, in order to make way for so hazardous an experiment? a1828 H. Neele Lit. Remains (1829) 33 The tragedies of Shakspeare were driven from the stage to make way for those of Addison and Rowe. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 151 His castle..has been wantonly destroyed to make way for one of the barbarous official buildings of modern France. 1871 Sat. Rev. 5 Aug. 169/1 The whole Controllery might..be cast aside to make way for something better. 1917 G. Lee Diary 13 Feb. in Home Fires Burning (2006) 206 The Game Laws of England! They too have had to make way for the necessities of England at war. 1964 H. Rosenthal & J. Warrack Conc. Oxf. Dict. Opera 259/2 The halting dramatic progress, with the plot continually arrested to make way for demonstrations of vocal skill. 1997 Independent on Sunday 11 May (Real Life section) 5/1 Fat is now a masculine issue and laddish hedonism is rapidly making way for lardish narcissism. 2014 New Yorker 5 May 85/3 As autumn makes way for winter, a plot stirs. (d) To make progress on a journey or voyage. Often with modifying word, as to make good (also much, little, etc.) way. Cf. to make headway at headway n. 3. (i) Nautical. Cf. sense A. 14. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] wadeOE agoOE forthganga1000 forthgoOE syeOE kenc1275 to-stepc1275 vaunce1303 forthnima1325 passc1330 throc1330 forthpass1382 to pass forthc1384 to carry forthc1390 proceedc1392 to go alongc1400 to be forthwardc1430 get) groundc1436 to set onc1450 avauntc1460 pretend1481 to make way1490 advance?1507 to get forward1523 promove1570 to rid ground (also space)1572 to rid (the) way1581 progressa1586 to gather grounda1593 to make forth1594 to make on1597 to work up1603 perge1607 to work one's (also its) way1609 to pass on1611 to gain ground1625 to make its way1645 vadea1660 propagate1700 to gain one's way1777 further1789 to pull up1829 on1840 to make (up) ground1921 society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > make progress enforcec1340 halec1400 to make way1490 heave1626 forge1769 walk1806 1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos xxvii. sig. Giiij^v Castyng her sight ferder towarde the see, she sawe the saylles wyth the slote of the shippes that made good waye. 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. viii. f. 61 Poris bent him self to encourage the mariners to hoyse by saile againe, and to make way with their oares into the sea. 1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 98 The windes and seas were high, yet we made some way. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. vi. 60 We seeing them prepare to assault vs, left our Oares and made way with our sayle to incounter them. a1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis (1658) 1 The Winde..setled in the West for many dayes, so as we could make little or no way. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 29 Fetch the log-line to try what way shee makes. 1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 49 We lost our Main top Mast, so that after the Storm was over we could not make any Way. 1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §155 Our vessels..made better Way in a rough sea. 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow III. vii. 104 He stood up on the choak to ascertain what way she was making through the water. 1882 H. de Windt On Equator 75 The river, however, widened to nearly a mile in breadth..and we made better way. 1915 S. H. Carden in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1972) III. Compan. i. 405 Battleships preceded by sweepers making way up towards Narrows. 1975 J. Clavell Shōgun (1980) viii. 169 The oars dipped and pulled, but still the ship made no way. 1999 B. Unsworth Losing Nelson (2000) xiv. 162 The first days were calm; the ship made slow way, with light breezes puffing her sails. (ii) gen. ΚΠ a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxlv. f. clxvi^v/2 He made waye towarde Turney, In so moche y^t the Uicount & his company demed them to haue returned to Turney. ?a1518 H. Watson Ualentyne & Orson (1555) xli. sig. Gg.i^v They made so muche waye that they passed ouer these, and ouer dyuers wodes. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A8^v He making speedy way through spersed ayre. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. i. 232 Waite you on him,..While I make way from hence to saue my life. View more context for this quotation 1725 J. Stevens Royal Treasury of Eng. 152 Before the Coach could make much way, that poor Fellow fell into another violent Fit of Laughter. 1743 H. Bracken Traveller's Pocket-farrier 16 This is a very bad Sort of a Breast for a Road-horse, or indeed, for any Horse that is designed to make good-way, as the Sailors term it. 1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i. in Lamia & Other Poems 160 Like a lithe serpent vast and muscular Making slow way, with head and neck convuls'd. 1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions i His companion..was making rapid way towards the point. 1912 A. Carter Seamless Robe (new ed.) xxxiv. 299 The turn of a sharp corner brought to view a farm cart making slow way towards them. (iii) figurative and in extended use: to make progress, have success. ΚΠ ?1561 I. D. tr. N. des Gallars True Rep. Doynges Assembly at Poyssy sig. B.ii He entreated also, and desyred Beza, that he would oftener talke and conferre with him, of these matters, that so at last, they myghte make some waye to peace and concorde. a1628 J. Preston Treat. Effectuall Faith i. 29 in Breast-plate of Faith (1630) That which we said before to you, when wee shewed you the causes of the ineffectualnesse of faith, will make good way to this. 1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. Advt. to Rdr. sig. A2 He must have more of the Confidence of a modern Writer than falls to his Share, to think of making much way with the feeble Effort of his own Reason. 1798 T. Wallace Ess. Manufacturers of Ireland iii. 152 With these advantages against him, the Irish manufacturer has long struggled, and in despite of them has made much way. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. Introd. Ep. 56 So great is the difference betwixt reading a thing one's self, making toilsome way through all the difficulties of manuscript, and, as the man says in the play, ‘having the same read to you’. 1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation iii. ii. 432 Should the system [of life annuities] not make any greater way than it has done, it may not..be worth objecting to. 1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men II. xviii. 59 And he made no more way with his wooing. That was stopped, apparently, altogether. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xxxix. 71 There are some signs the view is making way. 1902 Twentieth Cent. Nov. 785 Opera naturally has as yet made little way in the villages. 1999 S. Turow Personal Injuries 83 Rashul..tried to make way with Oretta, who had him by about thirty years. †(e) To make a hole in or through something; to pierce. Also (with unto): to make an opening to. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into holec1000 openOE to make way1581 perforate?1660 to make (also have) the sun shine through1679 ventilate1917 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades iv. 73 That of the staffe the steeled point made in his forehead way [Gk. πέρησε]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Faire jour à, to make way vnto. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 154 With that word she stroke me on the head, And through the instrument my pate made way . View more context for this quotation 1639 R. Ward Animadversions of Warre i. xiv. ccl. 368 When the Enemy is come up at push of Pike, so close that the Pikemen can make no use of their Pikes, then these Flayles makes way through their Head-peeces and Armour. †(f) With to. To approach (a person) with a view to establishing relations, entering into negotiations, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards or approach (a thing, place, or person) [verb (transitive)] > approach and speak to to venture on (also uponc1528 boarda1547 accost1567 affront1598 to make way1609 aboard1611 1609 ‘Philagathus’ tr. ‘Denakol’ No Parl. Powder 15 There hath beene a miserable custome, in saying; that men might goe of, and by themselues, to God, euen as by Earles and Princes, they can make way to Kings. 1630 J. Shirley Gratefull Seruant iv. 58 I haue prepar'd him, and made way to the Abbot, For your reception. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 481 I already have made way To some Philistian Lords, with whom to treat About thy ransom. View more context for this quotation extracted from wayn.¹int.¹ < as lemmas
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