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▪ I. † ˈwisely, a. Obs. rare.
Forms: 1 wislic, 3 wislich, 4 compar. wislier, 5 wysely, 6 wysley, 7 wisely.
[OE. wíslic: see wise a. and -ly1.]
= wise a. 1.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. ii. xiii. (1890) 134 Me þynceð wislic, ᵹif þu ᵹeseo þa þing beteran,..þæt we þam onfon. a1023Wulfstan Hom. i. (1883) 4 Ðonne is eac wislic ræd, þæt manna ᵹehwylc ᵹeornlice smeaᵹe. a1300Cursor M. 28116 Wit wislier þat i was amang Haue i striued oft-sithes wrang. 1436Libel Engl. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 183 Yf men were wysely, the Frenshmen and Flemmynge Shulde bere no state in see by werrynge. 1556J. de Flores' Aurelio & Isab. E 8, Vnto howre wysley wordes.
▪ II. wisely, adv.|ˈwaɪzlɪ|
Forms: see wise a. and -ly2; also 5 wisily, vi-, vysilie, 5–6 wys(e)-. wyislie, 6 wyslye, wislie.
[OE. wíslíce = OS. wîslîco, MLG., MDu. wîslîk (Du. wijzelijk), OHG. wîslîcho (MHG. wîslîche), ON. vísliga (in the sense of vissuliga certainly): f. wise a. + -ly2.]
In a wise manner.
1. With wisdom, sound judgement, or sagacity. Also more widely, with good sense or discretion.
c888ælfred Boeth. xviii. §1 Se þe wile wislice & ᵹeorn⁓lice æfter þam hlisan spyrian. c897― Gregory's Past. C. xviii. 131 Ðæt he meahte ðæt folc ðy wislicor & ðy rædlicor læran. c1175Lamb. Hom. 105 Þet mon wisliche spene þa þing þe him god lene on þisse liue to brukene. c1200Ormin 2199 Ȝho toc wisliȝ to fraȝȝnenn himm whatt itt bitacnenn mihhte. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1091 Loth hem warnede, wislike and wel, Oc he ne troweden him neuere a del. a1300Cursor M. 18852 Clerli spak he þat he wald, And al his skil wiseli he tald. c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 956 He hasteþ wel þat wysly kan a-byde. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 70 Alle þese þingis I haue told, þat he þat rediþ hem mai þe visiloker [v.r. wyslocor] in semblable causis worchen. a1450Le Morte Arth. 1158 Thou ne woste not Ryght wiseliche What harme hathe falle. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xxv. 539 See that ye revenge yourself wysly. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia i. (1895) 113 Thys I suppose is the chiefe cause whie theyr common wealthes be wyselyere gouerned. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1922) 78 Young men, who thinke, then they speake wiseliest, when they cannot understand themselves. 1604Shakes. Oth. v. ii. 344 One that lou'd not wisely, but too well. 1610― Temp. ii. i. 21 Gon... You haue spoken truer then you purpos'd. Seb. You haue taken it wiselier then I meant you should. 1667Milton P.L. x. 1023 Doubt not but God Hath wiselier arm'd his vengeful ire then so To be forestall'd. 1765A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) 63 This method of conveying the vegetable food from the earth to the air, and from the air to the earth, is wisely established, for making a just distribution of it upon all parts of the earth. 1829Southey Sir T. More I. 280 Men judge wiseliest, when they judge most charitably. 1847Helps Friends in C. i. v. 85 From a genial, wisely-developed man, good things radiate. 1925E. Phillpotts Voice from Dark xvi. 199 He would have done wiselier to be home before it came.
b. With an air or assumption of wisdom; sagely, knowingly.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xiii. 126 b, I asked him..what religion he kept, wherupon wisely he gaue me to vnderstand that [etc.]. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 22 He..looking on it, with lacke-lustre eye, Sayes, very wisely, it is ten a clocke. 1888‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Childr. iv, ‘Ah! but there's very few Captain Ferrers about,’ said Lassie wisely.
†2. Attentively, carefully, heedfully. Obs.
c1000Inst. Polity x. in Thorpe Laws II. 318 Beþencan heora dæda wislice & wærlice. a1225Ancr. R. 104 Þe heorte is wel iloked ȝif muð & eien & earen wisliche beoð ilokene. a1225Leg. Kath. 82 Ha heold hire aldrene hird wisliche & warliche. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 343, I wayted wisloker. a1400Morte Arth. 1613 That they be weisely wachede and in warde holdene. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxvi. 123 Qwhen þai ga to were, þai hafe þam riȝt warly and wysely. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 587, I raid on full richt, To watche wyselie the wayis. 1558Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. 111 Powre the said water fynely and wisely into some other vessel that is cleane. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 28 If you holde the same [glass] wisely..you shall see the wine ascende in the forme of a clowd.
†3. Skilfully, cleverly, ingeniously; cunningly.
a1000Cædmon's Gen. 456 Oð ðæt he Adam on eorðrice, godes handᵹesceaft ᵹearone funde, wislice ᵹeworht, & his wif somed. a1000Boeth. Metr. xx. 15 Þu þe unstilla aᵹna ᵹesceafta to ðinum willan wislice astyrest. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3630 God it taȝte al ear moysen Wislike hu it wroȝt sulde ben. 1390Gower Conf. I. 255 With his wordes slyhe and queinte, The whiche he cowthe wysly peinte. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. lxxiv. (1869) 44 She wolde it were so wysliche moolded and so subtylliche that bi seemynge it were litel. a1586Sidney Arcadia Ecl. ii. (1922) 231 The hives of wisely painfull Bees. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. i. v. 33 Here comes my Lady: make your excuse wisely, you were best. |