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Webster 1913 Edition


Via


Vi′a

(vī′ȧ or vē′ȧ)
,
Noun.
[L. See
Way
.]
A road or way.
Via Lactea
[L.]
(Astron.)
,
the Milky Way, or Galaxy. See
Galaxy
, 1.
Via media
[L.]
(Theol.)
,
the middle way; – a name applied to their own position by the Anglican high-churchmen, as being between the Roman Catholic Church and what they term extreme Protestantism.

Vi′a

,
p
rep.
[L., ablative of
via
way. See
Way
.]
By the way of;
as, to send a letter
via
Queenstown to London
.

Definition 2024


viâ

viâ

See also: via, vía, and vi'a

English

Preposition

viâ

  1. (British) Dated form of via.
    • 1886: Comte De Paris, The Battle of Gettysburg, page 248:
      Stahel's calvary division moved from Warrington, viâ Gainesville, to Fairfax Court-house.
    • 1907: Karl Baedeker, Paris and environs: with routes from London to Paris; handbook for travellers, page 32:
      To the right are the Lignes de Normandie (England viâ Dieppe or Le Havre).
    • 1912: Claudius Madrolle, Northern China, the Valley of the Blue River, Korea, page 386 (2nd Ed.; Hachette & company)
      The foundries produced, in 1909, 74,000 tons of pig-iron which were exported viâ Shang-hai to Japan and even to America.

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