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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Path

Path (pȧth), n.; pl. Paths (pȧt͟hz). [As. pæð, pað; akin to D. pad, G. pfad, of uncertain origin; cf. Gr. πάτος, Skr. patha, path. √21.] 1. A trodden way; a footway.

The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. Dryden.

2. A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action.

All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. Ps. xxv. 10.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Gray.

Path (pȧt͟h), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pathed (pȧt͟hd); pr.p. & vb. n. Pathing.] To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). [R.] "Pathing young Henry's unadvised ways." Drayton.

Path, v. i. To walk or go. [R.] Shak.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.