| 单词 | way's end | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasway's end   way's end  n. now rare (with the or possessive pronoun) the end of a journey (literal and figurative); (also) †the completion of a process (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > 			[noun]		 > completion of a process way's endc1300 c1300    St. Patrick's Purgatory 		(Laud)	 l. 100 in  C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary 		(1887)	 202 (MED)  				Þe faireste feld þat miȝte beo atþe weiȝes ende he iseiȝ. a1325						 (c1280)						    Southern Passion 		(Pepys 2344)	 		(1927)	 l. 327  				Ak goþ to þe weyes ende And alle þat ȝe ffyndeþ þer to þe brudale he sende. c1450    in  C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. 		(1939)	 263  				The more I goo the ferther I am behinde, The ferther behinde the ner my wayes ende. 1526    in  Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. 		(1790)	 219  				It shall be lawfull for the purveyour..to take..such Poultry stuff..paying unto them such prices..as the said purveyor..should have paid therefore at the wayes end. 1528    W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. cxljv  				Thou must therfore goo alonge by the scripture as by a lyne, vntyll thou come at Christ, which is the wayes ende and restynge place. 1662    W. Petty Treat. Taxes 84  				The one [stuff] wanting nothing but tacking up, to be at its ways end; and the other tayloring..and several other particulars. 1878    Carthusian Apr. 417/1  				At the way's end once more they hear its voice—In the Great Silence are thy words; their tone Shall rise at last, to doom or to deliver. 1907    Cosmopolitan Mag. Aug. 380  				Now, at the way's end, guerdon of the quest, I lift the Isis-veils of Change and Fate. 2012    U. Wikan Resonance x. 253  				Mohammed Atta (and his companions) had come to their way's end. < as lemmas | 
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