Definition of "wayes" []

• Plural form of waye. (noun)

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• "And while I doubt that Milton would approve of his poem -- which he hoped would help to "justifie the wayes of God to men" -- getting the Hollywood Blockbuster treatment, is it a crime to spend a little of our light watching angels battle in the skies?"
• "And therefore they being themselves invisible to us, and capable of working in wayes that our sences cannot discerne; and being Agents of great craft & long experience; tis no wonder that many of their actions, thô never so pollytickly contrived & carried on, should seem irrationall to us: who know so little of their particular inclinations & designes, and the subtil"
• "He also remarks about the world that if it be Finite [which Boyle allows as a possibility], then ˜tis not in a place (such as the Schools define) after the manner of other Bodys, since there is no ambient Body whose inward surface determines it; and we may conceive it to move several wayes, as upwards or downwards, and yet not to change place, because"