Obs. Forms: 5 alyke-wise, 6 Sc. elikewise, elykewyse. [f. ALIKE a. + WISE sb., way, manner.] Perh. in Promp. Parv., three words, a like wise, ‘in like manner.’
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., Allelykely, or euynly (v.r. a lykewyse or euynly) Equaliter.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, I. Pref. 241. Elikewise eik this Caxtoun all in vane Crispina clippis Sibilla Cwmane.
1556. Lauder, Tract. (1864), 34. Rycht as the sande hour in the glasse, Elykewyse dois thare tyme heir passe.
