[abbreviated from in like wise: see LIKE a. and WISE sb.]
† 1. (The full phrase.) In like wise: in the same manner. Obs.
1449. Rolls of Parlt., V. 148/1. As we have … besought the Kyngs Highnesse … in lyke wyse tenderly we desire all youre wysdomes.
c. 1489. Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, ix. 225. Alarde began to synge … a new song … & Richarde dide in lykewyse.
1509. Bury Wills (Camden), 109. To ye chyrch of All Seyntys in ye same town in lykwyse xs.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis (Arb.), 22. In lykewise Neptun thee God … apeered.
1673. Ray, Journ. Low C., 183. If any be not present, he is searched out and brought in like wise.
2. In the like or same manner, similarly; = 1. Obs. exc. arch. in to do likewise (after Luke x. 37).
a. 1460. Gregory’s Chron., in Hist. Coll. Citizen Lond. (Camden), 133. Also lyke wyse al maner of personys of Hooly Chyrche obedyente unto us … shalle swere for too kepe thy’s present acorde.
1489. Caxton, Faytes of A., II. xxxv. 150. Item they … may yssue out … that owre whan the enemyes be not aware of … and likwyse to sawte them as they be sawted.
1534. Tindale, Luke x. 37. Goo and do thou lyke wyse.
1535. Joye, Apol. Tindale (Arb.), 9. And lyke wyse he plaith with the verb in Luke and in Marke.
1611. Bible, Judg. vii. 17. Hee said into them, Looke on mee, and doe likewise.
c. 1625. Milton, Death Fair Infant, ii. He thought it toucht his Deitie full neer, If likewise he some fair one wedded not.
1828. J. H. Moore, Pract. Navig. (ed. 20), p. xiv. Multiplication of Decimals is performed likewise as that of whole numbers.
3. Also, as well, moreover, too.
1509. Fisher, Funeral Serm. C’tess Richmond, Wks. (1876), 290. Wherfore let vs consyder lyke wise whether [etc.].
1604. E. G[rimstone], D’Acosta’s Hist. Indies, IV. xxxviii. 314. There is likewise a small beast very common which they call Cuyes.
1747. Wesley, Prim. Physick (1762), 84. It is good likewise … in all Hypocondriacal cases.
1816. J. Wilson, City of Plague, II. iii. 188. I had forgot to mention that his wife Was likewise lying dead.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., lxxxv. 53. Likewise the imaginative woe … Diffused the shock thro’ all my life.
1880. Geikie, Phys. Geog., Introd. 7. As there is a geographical distribution of climates, so likewise is there one of plants and animals.
Hence † Likewisely adv., similarly. † Likewiseness, a similar method or manner.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. ii. IV. Columnes, 327. Th’other, which cuts this equi-distantly … is (like-wisely) The second Colure.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., To Rdr. We … may either find better words … or at least coin fitter … in a likewiseness to the old, than [etc.].
