anywise, adv.
(ˈɛnɪwaɪz)
[for in any wise, also used in full; OE. (on) ǽniᵹe w{iacu}san.]
In any manner, way, or case; in any degree, at all; anyhow.
| a 1000 Metr. Ps. lxxiii. 9 On ǽniᵹe w{iacu}san. [Cf. Hymn vii. 66 Aᵹene w{iacu}san.] c 1200 Moral Ode 269 Alle þe þen aniȝewise doulen iquemde. c 1225 Ste. Marherete (1866) 13 Ȝef ich mahte eyweis makien ham to fallen. 1472 Marg. Paston in Lett. III. 62 In any wyse..labore to have an ende of your grete materes. 1563 J. Man Musculus' Comm. Places 374 b, For all that, it is in any wise [omnino] necessarie. 1660 Barrow Euclid ii. ii, If a right line be divided anywise into two parts. 1775 Act 15 Geo. III, liii. §1 in Oxf. & Camb. Enactmts. 85 Any law or usage to the contrary hereof in anywise not withstanding. 1783 Burke Affairs of India Wks. 1842 II. 11 The only subject-matter of discussion, anywise important. 1870 Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1879) II. 11 Neither is it anywise essential. |