adv. [f. THUS + -WISE.] In this manner; = THUS. Cf. THISWISE.
13[?]. Cursor M., 11971 (Gött.). ‘Sun,’ scho said, ‘wirk noght þus wise’ [Cott., Tr. þis wise; Fairf. suche wise].
1509. Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1570), 238. Howe longe shall ye mankinde thus wise oppres?
1526. Tindale, Phil. iii. 15. As many as be perfect be thus wyse minded.
1594. Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits (1616), 172. This child, whom we goe thus-wise examining.
1843. E. Jones, Sens. & Event, Poems (1879), 8. Long ere the worms had fretted through The clay that thuswise spake.
1849. M. Arnold, In Utrumque Paratus, ii. O waking on a world which thuswise springs.
1887. Morris, Odyss., XI. 504. I spake unto him and thuswise answered again.
So † Thus ways adv. phr. Obs. rare–1.
1616. J. Haig, in J. Russell, Haigs, vi. (1881), 139. I was no scholar to sustain ane argument against him, but thus ways leaves him.
