otherwhiles, adv. Now rare or dial.
(ˈʌðəhwaɪlz)
Forms: see other a. and whiles. Also as two words, or hyphened.
[f. as prec. with advb. genitive -s, in later times often felt as plural.]
† 1. = prec. 1. Obs.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 50 Lates þet summe oðer hwules, weilawei! unkundeliche makieð. Ibid. 180 Þeos fondunges cumeð oðerhules of God, & oðerhules of mon. c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. viii. 65 The ky may otherwhiles be withdrawe. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Caius' Eng. Dogs in Arb. Garner III. 234 To hunt two divers beasts, as the foxe other-whiles, and other-whiles the hare. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 537 Double diligence and ouermuch curiositie both hurt other⁓whiles. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 156 She did nothing but weep, and otherwhiles also threw her self upon the ground. 1787 Grose Prov. Gloss., Otherwhiles, sometimes. |
2. = prec. 2.
| c 1460 Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. vii. (1885) 125 The kynge shall often tymes sende his comissioners..to represse and punysh riatours and risers; ffor wich cause he shall odre whiles ride in his owne person. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 269 Somtyme with swete mylke of deuocion or otherwhyles amonge with..swetnes of grace. 1540–1 Elyot Image Gov. 8 Sometyme aboundaunt, otherwyles shorte and compendious. 1683 Chalkhill Thealma & Cl. 100 Tones, Sometimes of Joy, and otherwhiles of Mones. 1719 De Foe Crusoe i. xiii, Other whiles I fancied they were all gone. 1897 Dublin Rev. Oct. 394 Sometimes the points are definitive, otherwhiles the writer leaves himself liberty for a different arrangement. |
† b. some otherwhiles (properly three words, some other whiles), at some other times. Obs.
| 1671 H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 294 Sometimes into the stomach..some otherwhiles into the neck. |