1. In some way or manner; by some means; somehow.
c. 1450. Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.), 40. God wyl be vengyd on us sum way.
1565. Cooper, Thesaurus, Aliqua,… someway: by some meanes.
1570. Levins, Manip., 197/4. Someway, aliqua.
1641. Ld. Brooke, Disc. Nat. Episc., I. x. 57 b. All someway oppose the whole Law of Christ.
1674. Prideaux, Lett. (Camden), 19. I will not yet dispair of Williamson’s provideing for you some way or other.
1736. Gentl. Mag., VI. 598/1. That his Lordship had a Right some-way to interest himself in Affairs of this Nature.
1798. Edgeworth, Pract. Educ., I. 147. They are to … behave in company some way differently from what they behave every day in their own family.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), I. 291. We shall have to contemplate … the bile as some way or other damaged in its secretion.
1890. Advance (Chicago), 27 Feb. We someway think that contentment is to feel no want.
1905. J. H. McCarthy, Dryad, xx. 200. He felt that he must obey, he felt that Esclaramonde had someway ensnared him.
2. At some distance. In quot. transf. of time.
Usually, and more correctly, written as two words: cf. SOME a.1 4 c (b), quot. 1867.
1859. Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, I. I. iv. 84. But then came the days of sadness, when Adam was some way on in his teens.
