adv. Obs. [f. LIKE a. + ways: see WAY.] = LIKEWISE 2 and 3.

1

1551.  Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., I. vii. Like waies I set one foote of the compas steddily in C.

2

1588.  A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., 81. Our … faith … confirmit lykuayis according to his commandiment.

3

c. 1620.  A. Hume, Brit. Tongue (1865), 20. Lykwayes we sould keep the vouales of the original.

4

1625.  in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. I. III. 211. And lykwayes I thinke I have done you no wrong.

5

1712.  Addison, Spect., No. 542, ¶ 2. There are others who have likeways done me a very particular honour.

6

[1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., II. xii. Likeways when I went to them two governors.]

7