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▪ I. † ˈwishly, a. Obs. rare.
[? f. next.]
? Steadfast.
1578T. Procter Gorg. Gallery Invent. H ij, Vlisses wife shall mate the sore, whose wishly troth doth shine.
▪ II. wishly, adv. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈwɪʃlɪ|
Also 6 wysh(e)-, wishe-, 7 wishtly.
[? Alteration of wistly adv. influenced by wish.]
Steadfastly, fixedly, intently; occas. longingly. (Almost always qualifying look or some equivalent: cf. wistfully.)
1530Palsgr. fol. 183, I cast my syght vpon a thyng to beholde it wyshely. Ibid., And sodaynly he caste his syght wyshely vpon me. 1533More Answ. Poysoned Bk. v. ii. Wks. 1134/2 Causing hym to putte on his spectacles, and pore better and more wishely with his olde eyen vpon saynt Iohns ghospell. c1611Chapman Iliad xi. 522 æacides, that wishly did intend..how deepe the skirmish drew Amongst the Greeks. 1622J. Abernethy Chr. Treat. Physick Soule v. 73 Thou must bee wishly exstimulate in thy conscience. 1647Trapp Comm. Matt. vi. 4. 186 He looketh wishtly, fixedly, steddily. 1660S. Ford Loyal Subj. Exult. 21 Those thousands of loyall Subjects, who..had looked wishtly towards the royall Palace. 1680R. L'Estrange Erasm. Colloq. xiii. 186 Looking wishly up into the Air [orig. intentis in cœlum oculis]. 1683Cave Ecclesiastici App. 27 Woman, said he, tell me why dost thee so wishly behold me? a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Wishly, earnestly; wishfully; with longing... ‘The children eyed the plum-pudding wishly.’ 1902Longman's Mag. Nov. 40, I seed him yesterday a⁓cranen' over th' wall and eyen' on her wishly. |