adv. Now arch. Also 5 somwyse, 6 sumwise. [f. SOME a.1: see -WISE.] In some way or manner; to some extent. In recent use with in.
c. 1440. Alph. Tales, 293. Becauce he wold somwyse be occupyed ilka day.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., II. 105. To cause his subiectis lyue in peace with him, or sumwise slokne that hett hatred and Jnuie betuene thame.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm. Upright Walking, Wks. 1687, I. 60. That nothing can be really profitable … to us, which … doth not somewise conduce to our spiritual interest.
1848. D. G. Rossetti, Last Confession, Poems (1870), 67. The father’s, brother’s love—was changed, I think, in somewise.
1865. Swinburne, Chastelard, II. i. 59. I thought I was asleep In Paris, lying by my lord, and knew In somewise he was well awake.
