adv. Now rare or Obs. [See -WAYS.]
1. Immediately, without delay: = STRAIGHTWAY 2.
c. 1530. Ld. Berners, Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814), 434. Than the king said,… let them come hyder: and so they were incontinent sente for, and they came thyder streyght wayes.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 80. He holdeth fast in his clawes little stones, which in their falling from him straight wayes awaketh him.
1573–8. Tusser, Author’s Life, viii. Husb. (1878), 207. From Paules I went, to Eaton sent, To learn streight waies, the latin phraies.
1575. R. B., Apius & Virginia (facs.), E j b. To master reward I straight waies will go.
1603. Stow, Surv. (1908), II. 132. Richard Talbot Bishop of London, streghtwayes after his consecration deceased, saith Euersden.
1611. Bible, 2 Macc. xiv. 16. So at the commandement of the captaine, they remooued straightwayes from thence.
1635. Bacon, Ess., Cunning (Arb.), 443. Like to him, that hauing changed his Name, and walking in Pauls, Another suddenly came behind him, and called him by his true Name, whereat straightwaies he looked backe.
1695. Ld. Preston, Boeth., I. 14. I the Leader do straightways retreat with my Party into a Fortress.
1812. Southey, Omniana, I. 324. And he went straightways to the house of the woman.
† 2. In a straight line. Obs.
1771. Phil. Trans., LXI. 235. They are first extended streightways, and appear like two bristles.
