VIA

‖Vi″a (vī″ȧ), n. [[L. See Way.]] A road or way. Via Lactea [] (Astron.), the Milky Way, or Galaxy. See Galaxy, 1. — Via media [] (Theol.), the middle way; — a name applied to their own position by the Anglican high-churchmen, as being between the Roman Catholic Church and what they term extreme Protestantism.