adv. (a.) [f. SUN sb. + -WISE.]

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  1.  = prec.

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1865.  M‘Lauchlan, Early Scott. Ch., iv. 33. Everything that is to move prosperously among many of the Celts, must move sunwise.

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1885.  Cornh. Mag., March, 27. All the brethren made a processional turn round the temple, sunwise.

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  b.  as adj.

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1881.  C. F. Gordon-Cumming, in Scribner’s Monthly, XXII. 738. The old custom of carrying fire in sunwise procession around any given object. Ibid. (1884), in Macm. Mag., Feb., 397/2. Pilgrims, wading knee-deep in the river mud, walk round the holy city in sun-wise circuit.

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  2.  In the manner of the sun; with brightness like that of the sun. rare–1.

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1897.  F. Thompson, Any Saint, xxxix.

        When He bends down, sun-wise,
Intemperable eyes.

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