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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