† otherguise, a. Obs.
(ˈʌðəgaɪz)
[Corruption of prec. by folk-etymology, after guise.]
= prec.
| 1653 Z. Bogan Mirth Chr. Life 367 Thy soule must have otherguise food, if ever it think to grow. 1688 Bunyan Dying Sayings Wks. 50 The trial we have before God is of otherguise importance. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Book, To support the same through a volume in folio requires otherguise funds. 1755 Smollett Quix. ii. iii. xiii. (1783) IV. 61 Otherguise cats must scratch my beard, and not such a pitiful muckworm as he. |
Also † ˈother-guised a. Obs. [An attempt to improve upon prec.]
| 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 29 Our perceptions may arise from other guised objects than these whereto we attribute them. Ibid. 324 He would make an other-guised calculation than our common gamesters. |