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voyage

 

  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Voyage  \Voy"age\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Voyaged};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Voyaging}.]  [Cf.  F.  voyager.] 
  To  take  a  voyage;  especially,  to  sail  or  pass  by  water. 
 
  A  mind  forever  Voyaging  through  strange  seas  of  thought 
  alone.  --Wordsworth. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Voyage  \Voy"age\,  v.  t. 
  To  travel;  to  pass  over  to  traverse. 
 
  With  what  pain  [I]  voyaged  the  unreal,  vast,  unbounded 
  deep.  --Milton. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Voyage  \Voy"age\  (?;  48),  n.  [OE.  veage,  viage,  OF  veage, 
  viage,  veiage,  voiage,  F.  voyage,  LL  viaticum,  fr  L. 
  viaticum  traveling  money,  provision  for  a  journey,  from 
  viaticus  belonging  to  a  road  or  journey,  fr  via  way  akin  to 
  E.  way  See  {Way},  n.,  and  cf  {Convey},  {Deviate}, 
  {Devious},  {Envoy},  {Trivial},  {Viaduct},  {Viaticum}.] 
  1.  Formerly,  a  passage  either  by  sea  or  land;  a  journey,  in 
  general;  but  not  chiefly  limited  to  a  passing  by  sea  or 
  water  from  one  place  port,  or  country,  to  another; 
  especially,  a  passing  or  journey  by  water  to  a  distant 
  place  or  country. 
 
  I  love  a  sea  voyage  and  a  blustering  tempest.  --J. 
  Fletcher. 
 
  So  steers  the  prudent  crane  Her  annual  voyage,  borne 
  on  winds.  --Milton. 
 
  All  the  voyage  of  their  life  Is  bound  in  shallows 
  and  in  miseries.  --Shak. 
 
  2.  The  act  or  practice  of  traveling.  [Obs.] 
 
  Nations  have  interknowledge  of  one  another  by  voyage 
  into  foreign  parts  or  strangers  that  come  to  them 
  --Bacon. 
 
  3.  Course;  way  [Obs.]  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  voyage 
  n  1:  an  act  of  traveling  by  water  [syn:  {ocean  trip}] 
  2:  a  journey  to  some  distant  place 
  v  :  travel  by  boat  [syn:  {sail},  {navigate}]




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