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Definition of By the way

1. Adverb. Introducing a different topic; in point of fact. "Incidentally, I won't go to the party"

Definition of By the way

1. Adverb. (context: conjunctive speech act idiomatic) Incidentally; a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of By The Way

Literary usage of By the way

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, Izaak Walton (1909)
"Then he went to the Stile to see, and behold a Path lay along by the way on ... That's not like, said the other; look, doth it not go along by the way-side? ..."

2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"hie death to occupy his old shop in St. Nicholas Churchyard, where, by the way, it still exists (1880), with a tablet proclaiming its history, and rejoicing ..."

3. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"CHAPTER XV. COVEY, THE NEGRO BREAKER. JOURNEY TO MY NEW MASTER'S MEDITATIONS BY THE WAY—VIEW OF CO- ..."

4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1878)
"The series of Edwin Booth's Prompt- Books, edited by Willie Winter, now issuing by this house, is, by the way, making an admirable series of standard plays ..."

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