what-wise, advb. phr. rare.
[Properly two words, what a. (13) + wise n.]
In what manner; how. Also in whatwise.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 20398 Of vs es nan þat wat for quam, Ne wat quat-wis we heder cam. c 1350 Will. Palerne 904 Seie me in what wise þat þat hache þe haldes. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xxix. 36, I shall you tell what-wyse and how. 1513 Douglas æneis iv. Prol. 188 With Venus henvifis quhat wyse may I flite? 1905 J. B. Bury Life St. Patrick vii. 139 Tell us how we may know him, in what⁓wise he will appear. |