adv. [for in any wise, also used in full; OE. (on) ǽniʓe wísan.] In any manner, way or case; in any degree, at all; anyhow.
a. 1000. Metr. Ps. lxxiii. 9. On ǽniʓe wisan. [Cf. Hymn vii. 66. Aʓene wisan.]
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. 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 notwithstanding.
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.
