otherwaysadv.adj.

a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 31 Ilke monne þe he haueð er istolen oðer oðer-weis wa idon.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 9362 Oðere weies þu most ag[i]nnen.

c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) 7000 Þe Peutes weren ofte iwoned Vortiger to ouercome and þo i þohten al-so, ac hit bi-ful oþerweies [c1275 Calig. an oðer] þo.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Num. xi. 15 Y may not alone susteyne al þis multitude, for hit ys greuous to me; ȝif oþer-weys hit is seyn to þe, y prey þat þou sle me.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 175 How þam felle oþer wais so many woes & hard.

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 3249 I can nat sen how thou maist goo Other weyes to garisoun.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1122 And we othyr-wayes ded, we were shamed for ever.

c1535 T. Cranmer Let. 3 Nov. in Remains (1833) I. 154 None other ways but as it shall seem to you just so to do.

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 12 They could not vtter [their discontent] being sencelesse images, not differing otherwayes..from liuing creatures.

1610 in Lett. & State Papers Reign James VI (1838) 183 Gif I did utherwayis, I uar the most ingrait in the earth.

1656 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern (ed. 3) i. 16 Those who have any employment for their money otherwayes.

1715 J. Gay What d'ye call It ii. viii. 34 I could not sure do otherways than well.

1781 J. Burgoyne Lord of Manor iii. i. 74 I was otherways employed.

1808 J. C. Curwen Hints Econ. Feeding Stock 38 Otherways, how should we account for [the fact]?

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. viii. 134 Joe sat and rolled his eyes at the ceiling. ‘Yes, Joe? Go on, please.’ ‘Next day, Sir,..I go and I see Miss A.’ ‘Miss A., Joe? Miss Havisham?’ ‘Which I say, Sir,..Miss A. or otherways Havisham.’

1903 ‘T. Collins’ Such is Life 22 The young feller he used to come sometimes an' just shake hands with her, but otherways he wouldn't touch her with a forty-foot pole.

1994 William & Mary Q. 51 767 I am ignorant concerning..upon what security is founded, and whether it be made payable on demand to the bearer, or otherways.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 154 And I outhir tak him or prisoun him, or othir wayis do him ony violence.

1572 in W. Mackay & H. C. Boyd Rec. Inverness (1911) I. 214 Wyth fyre and vtherwais.

1660 in L. B. Taylor Aberdeen Council Lett. (1954) IV. 202 Or otherwayes quarelling the proprietars richt therto.

1703 in H. Paton Rothesay Parish Rec. (1931) 174 Whereof he has depursed..the ministers precepts and otherwayes..sixteen pound ten shillings scots.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 228 Hit nis naut igodes curt ase iþe schire,..bifore god is oðerweis.

c1390 Castle of Love (Vernon) (1967) 626 Anoþer, þat oþerweis weere.

a1450 in Neuphilol. Mitteilungen (1948) 7 149–79 (MED) Þou wote it may non otherwayse be.

c1500 (a1400) Sir Cleges (Ashm.) (1913) 321 (MED) Syr cleges sey non oþer wone, Bot þer he grantyd hym a-non; Yt wold non oþer-weys be.

c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1921) II. ii. 42 Bot vther wayis it micht not be.

1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem i. f. 95^v It is otherwayis before other judges.

1673 H. N. Payne Morning Ramble v. 69 By the Guard that waits, I thought it had been otherways.

1732 J. Miller Vanelia i. i. 3 How is it possible to be otherways, when one reflects on the Wickedness of the Age?

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxix. 349 Forbid it should be otherways!