otherways, adv. Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈʌðəweɪz)
Forms: 2–3 -weies, -weis, 3 -weiis, -weise, 4 -weys, 4–9 -ways. Also 4–7 -waies, -wais, 5–7 -wayes, Sc. -wayis.
[f. other a. + ways, adverbial genitive of way n.]
In another way, manner, case, etc.: = otherwise.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 31 Ilke monne þe he haueð er istolen oðer oðer weis wa idon. c 1205 Lay. 18760 Oðere weies þu most agunnen. c 1320 Cast. L. 623 Another that otherweys were. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 175 How þam felle oþer wais so many woes & hard. 1470–85 Malory Arthur i. xvi, Lordes ye must other wayes than ye do. 1535 Cranmer Let. to Cromwell in Misc. Writ. (Parker Soc.) II. 315 None otherways but as it shall seem to you just so to do. 1656 H. Phillips Purch. Patt. (1676) 16 Those who have any employment for their money otherwayes. 1720 Gay Poems (1745) I. 255, I could not sure do otherways than well. 1808 Curwen Econ. Feeding Stock 38 Other⁓ways, how should we account for [the fact]? |