likewaysadv.

1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. vii Like waies I set one foote of the compas steddily in C.

c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) i. vii*. §8 Lykwayes we sould keep the vouales of the original.

1625 King Charles I Let. 20 Nov. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 211 And lykwayes I thinke I have done you no wrong.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 542. ¶2 There are others who have likeways done me a very particular Honour.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xxiii. 268 When they says to me.., ‘What's your name?’ I says to them ‘Find out.’ Likeways when they says ‘What's your religion?’ I says ‘Find out.’

1901 E. Arnold Voy. Ithobal 147 We, too, likeways did, Cutting away our mast.

2005 A. Sorby Schoolroom Poets 114 Likeways, an adult playing the part of a child can also play at collapsing hierarchies.

1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. iv. f. 81 By the quhilk our remembrance, faith, and thankfulnes, is daylie sterit vp touards our saujour him self, confirmit lykuayis [L. confirmeturque] according to his commandiment.

1614 P. Forbes Short Discov. Adversarie 2 in Def. Lawful Calling Likewayes, wee desire to know the names of these who since the Church of Rome fell from the trueth, hes continually from time to time, and age to age professed this religion.

1768 tr. M.-A. Duplessis de Sainte-Hélène in tr. Acct. Savage Girl App. 57 The bulk of their nation inhabits about Hudson's Bay in the north; some of them are likeways to be found along the coasts of the country of Labrador.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xii. 276 Likeways when I went to them two Governors.

1906 Amer. Illustr. Mag. Jan. 358/2 Ef you hit me agin I'll sock this rock into ye, an' I'll keep a-sockin' till you're deader 'n Pharo an' Goliar, and likeways the Hebrew childern.

1989 A. Gurganus Oldest Living Confederate Widow tells All v. 708 I was down to final oxygen. Likeways, I was under him.