wiselyadv.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪzli/, U.S.

/ˈwaɪzli/

Forms: see wise adj. and -ly suffix²; also Middle English wisily, vi-, vysilie, Middle English–1500s wys(e)lie, wyislie, 1500s wyslye, wislie.

Etymology: Old English wíslíce = Old Saxon wîslîco , Middle Low German, Middle Dutch wîslîk (Dutch wijzelijk ), Old High German wîslîcho (Middle High German wîslîche ), Old Norse vísliga (in the sense of vissuliga certainly): < wise adj. + -ly suffix².

In a wise manner.

a. With wisdom, sound judgement, or sagacity. Also more widely, with good sense or discretion.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [adverb]

wiselyc888

redlyeOE

spacklya1375

wittilya1375

prudentlya1382

redilyc1391

sagelya1400

sapiently1477

wise1487

wittingly1487

savourly1494

sageouslyc1500

ingeniously1548

judiciously1593

in his (or its, etc.) wisdom1852

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [adverb] > assuredly, indeed

soothlyc825

forsoothc888

wiselyc888

sooth to sayOE

i-wislichec1000

to (‥) soothOE

iwis?c1160

certesa1250

without missa1275

i-witterlic1275

trulyc1275

aplight1297

certc1300

in (good) fayc1300

verily1303

certain1330

in truthc1330

to tell (also speak, say) the truthc1330

certainlya1375

faithlya1375

in faitha1375

surelya1375

in sooth1390

in trothc1390

in good faitha1393

to witc1400

faithfullyc1405

soothly to sayc1405

all righta1413

sad?a1425

in certc1440

wella1470

truec1480

to say (the) truth1484

of a truth1494

of (a) trotha1500

for a truth?1532

in (of) verity1533

of verityc1550

really1561

for, in, or into very?1565

indeed1583

really and truly1600

indeed and indeed1673

right enough1761

deed1816

just1838

of a verity1850

sho1893

though1905

verdad1928

sholy1929

ja-nee1937

only1975

deffo1996

c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xviii. §1 Se þe wile wislice & georn~lice æfter þam hlisan spyrian.

c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xviii. 131 Ðæt he meahte ðæt folc ðy wislicor & ðy rædlicor læran.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 105 Þet mon wisliche spene þa þing þe him god lene on þisse liue to brukene.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2199 Ȝho toc wisliȝ to fraȝȝnenn himm. Whatt itt bitacnenn mihhte.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1091 Loth hem warnede wislike and wel, Oc he ne troweden him neuere a del.

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 956 He hasteþ wel þat wysly kan a-byde.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18852 Clerli spak he þat he wald, And al his skil wiseli he tald.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 70 Alle þese þingis I haue told, þat he þat rediþ hem mai þe visiloker [v.r. wyslocor] in semblable causis worchen.

a1450 Le Morte Arth. 1158 Thou ne woste not Ryght wiseliche What harme hathe falle.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxv. 539 See that ye revenge yourself wysly.

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Giiii Thys I suppose is the chiefe cause whie theyr common wealthes be wyselyere gouerned.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ll1^v Young men, who thinke, then they speake wiseliest, when they cannot vnderstand themselues.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 353 One that lou'd not wisely, but too well.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 22 Gon... You haue spoken truer then you purpos'd. Seb. You haue taken it wiselier then I meant you should.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 1023 Doubt not but God Hath wiselier arm'd his vengeful ire then so To be forestall'd.

1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. iv. 58 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.

1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More I. 280 Men judge wiseliest, when they judge most charitably.

1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. i. v. 85 From a genial, wisely-developed man, good things radiate.

1925 E. 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.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > pretender to wisdom, wiseacre > [adverb]

wisely1585

sapiently1816

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xiii. 126 b I asked him..what religion he kept, wherupon wisely he gaue me to vnderstand that [etc.].

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) 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 Children iv. 32 ‘Ah! but there's very few Captain Ferrers about,’ said Lassie wisely.

†2. Attentively, carefully, heedfully. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adverb]

welleOE

carefullya1000

wiselyc1000

redelya1250

cherelya1375

tentivelya1375

viselyc1380

curiouslya1382

namelya1382

smartlya1400

tentily?a1400

dearlyc1400

diligentlyc1400

preciously?a1425

listly?a1513

charely1545

heedely1548

accurately1549

respectively1556

heedfully1561

howfully1565

charily1577

heedily1577

charya1593

solicitously1618

c1000 Inst. Polity x, in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) II. 318 Beþencan heora dæda wislice & wærlice.

a1225 Leg. Kath. 82 Ha heold hire aldrene hird wisliche & warliche.

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 55 Þe heorte is wel iloket ȝef muð. & ehe. & eare. wisliche beon ilokene.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 343 I wayted wisloker.

?a1400 Morte Arth. 1613 That they be weisely wachede and in warde holdene.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxvi. 123 Qwhen þai ga to were, þai hafe þam riȝt warly and wysely.

1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount f. 111 Powre the said water fynely and wisely into some other vessel that is cleane.

1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 589 I raid on full richt, To watche wyselie the wayis.

1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 28 in Jewell House If you holde the same [glass] wisely..you shall see the wine ascende in the forme of a clowd.

†3. Skilfully, cleverly, ingeniously; cunningly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adverb] > with skill or art > ingeniously

craftilyeOE

wiselya1000

guisily13..

quaintc1300

quaintlyc1300

subtly1340

cunningly?a1400

subtilelyc1405

prettilyc1450

industriouslyc1487

ingeniously1548

clerkly1594

ambidextrously1657

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adverb]

foxlyc1175

craftilyc1225

craftlyc1225

slylyc1275

fellyc1300

quaintc1300

quaintlyc1325

sleightlyc1330

subtly1340

sly1370

espyinglya1382

wisely1390

wililya1400

wilyc1400

subtilelyc1405

ginnouslya1425

semylyc1440

serpentlya1450

small?c1450

cautelously1477

politicly1477

sleightfullyc1480

artificiously1536

insidiously1545

sleightily1549

artificially1566

cunningly1603

versutely1616

artfully1631

subdolously1638

serpentinely1656

slimlya1680

pawkily1714

politically1764

trickfullyc1790

trickishly1824

leerily1859

dodgily1868

trickily1895

foxily1933

OE Genesis 456 Oððæt he Adam on eorðrice, godes handgesceaft, gearone funde, wislice geworht, and his wif somed.

a1000 Boeth. Metr. xx. 15 Þu þe unstilla agna gesceafta to ðinum willan wislice astyrest.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3630 God it tagte al ear moysen Wislike hu it wrogt sulde ben.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 255 With his wordes slyhe and queinte, The whiche he cowthe wysly peinte.

c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. lxxiv. 44 She wolde it were so wysliche moolded and so subtylliche that bi seemynge it were litel.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) ii. sig. V3^v The hiues of wisely painfull Bees.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 28 Here comes my Lady: make your excuse wisely, you were best.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wisely
释义	† wiselyadj. Forms: Old English wislic, Middle English wislich, Middle English comparative wislier, Middle English wysely, 1500s wysley, 1600s wisely. Etymology: Old English wíslic : see wise adj. and -ly suffix¹. Obsolete. rare. = wise adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [adjective] glewc725 wiselyc900 snoterc950 wiseOE keena1000 witterc1100 redewisec1225 redefulc1275 well-donec1275 witfulc1275 sage1297 redya1325 heartya1382 prudenta1382 hearteda1425 subtilea1450 sapient1471 Palladian1562 wittiful1590 judicious1591 cordate1651 sophical1739 sophica1773 sapientious1852 unbesotted1875 sapiential1882 c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) ii. xiii. 134 Me þynceð wislic, gif þu geseo þa þing beteran,..þæt we þam onfon. a1023 Wulfstan Homilies i. 4 Ðonne is eac wislic ræd, þæt manna gehwylc geornlice smeage. a1300 Cursor Mundi 28116 Wit wislier þat i was amang Haue i striued oft-sithes wrang. 1436 Libel Engl. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 183 Yf men were wysely, the Frenshmen and Flemmynge Shulde bere no state in see by werrynge. 1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. E8 Vnto howre wysley wordes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2020). wiselyadv. Brit. /ˈwʌɪzli/, U.S. /ˈwaɪzli/ Forms: see wise adj. and -ly suffix²; also Middle English wisily, vi-, vysilie, Middle English–1500s wys(e)lie, wyislie, 1500s wyslye, wislie. Etymology: Old English wíslíce = Old Saxon wîslîco , Middle Low German, Middle Dutch wîslîk (Dutch wijzelijk ), Old High German wîslîcho (Middle High German wîslîche ), Old Norse vísliga (in the sense of vissuliga certainly): < wise adj. + -ly suffix². In a wise manner. 1. a. With wisdom, sound judgement, or sagacity. Also more widely, with good sense or discretion. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [adverb] wiselyc888 redlyeOE spacklya1375 wittilya1375 prudentlya1382 redilyc1391 sagelya1400 sapiently1477 wise1487 wittingly1487 savourly1494 sageouslyc1500 ingeniously1548 judiciously1593 in his (or its, etc.) wisdom1852 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [adverb] > assuredly, indeed soothlyc825 forsoothc888 wiselyc888 sooth to sayOE i-wislichec1000 to (‥) soothOE iwis?c1160 certesa1250 without missa1275 i-witterlic1275 trulyc1275 aplight1297 certc1300 in (good) fayc1300 verily1303 certain1330 in truthc1330 to tell (also speak, say) the truthc1330 certainlya1375 faithlya1375 in faitha1375 surelya1375 in sooth1390 in trothc1390 in good faitha1393 to witc1400 faithfullyc1405 soothly to sayc1405 all righta1413 sad?a1425 in certc1440 wella1470 truec1480 to say (the) truth1484 of a truth1494 of (a) trotha1500 for a truth?1532 in (of) verity1533 of verityc1550 really1561 for, in, or into very?1565 indeed1583 really and truly1600 indeed and indeed1673 right enough1761 deed1816 just1838 of a verity1850 sho1893 though1905 verdad1928 sholy1929 ja-nee1937 only1975 deffo1996 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xviii. §1 Se þe wile wislice & georn~lice æfter þam hlisan spyrian. c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xviii. 131 Ðæt he meahte ðæt folc ðy wislicor & ðy rædlicor læran. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 105 Þet mon wisliche spene þa þing þe him god lene on þisse liue to brukene. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2199 Ȝho toc wisliȝ to fraȝȝnenn himm. Whatt itt bitacnenn mihhte. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1091 Loth hem warnede wislike and wel, Oc he ne troweden him neuere a del. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 956 He hasteþ wel þat wysly kan a-byde. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18852 Clerli spak he þat he wald, And al his skil wiseli he tald. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 70 Alle þese þingis I haue told, þat he þat rediþ hem mai þe visiloker [v.r. wyslocor] in semblable causis worchen. a1450 Le Morte Arth. 1158 Thou ne woste not Ryght wiseliche What harme hathe falle. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxv. 539 See that ye revenge yourself wysly. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Giiii Thys I suppose is the chiefe cause whie theyr common wealthes be wyselyere gouerned. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ll1^v Young men, who thinke, then they speake wiseliest, when they cannot vnderstand themselues. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 353 One that lou'd not wisely, but too well. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 22 Gon... You haue spoken truer then you purpos'd. Seb. You haue taken it wiselier then I meant you should. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 1023 Doubt not but God Hath wiselier arm'd his vengeful ire then so To be forestall'd. View more context for this quotation 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. iv. 58 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. 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More I. 280 Men judge wiseliest, when they judge most charitably. 1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. i. v. 85 From a genial, wisely-developed man, good things radiate. 1925 E. 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > pretender to wisdom, wiseacre > [adverb] wisely1585 sapiently1816 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xiii. 126 b I asked him..what religion he kept, wherupon wisely he gaue me to vnderstand that [etc.]. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 22 He..looking on it, with lacke-lustre eye, Sayes, very wisely, it is ten a clocke. View more context for this quotation 1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children iv. 32 ‘Ah! but there's very few Captain Ferrers about,’ said Lassie wisely. †2. Attentively, carefully, heedfully. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adverb] welleOE carefullya1000 wiselyc1000 redelya1250 cherelya1375 tentivelya1375 viselyc1380 curiouslya1382 namelya1382 smartlya1400 tentily?a1400 dearlyc1400 diligentlyc1400 preciously?a1425 listly?a1513 charely1545 heedely1548 accurately1549 respectively1556 heedfully1561 howfully1565 charily1577 heedily1577 charya1593 solicitously1618 c1000 Inst. Polity x, in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) II. 318 Beþencan heora dæda wislice & wærlice. a1225 Leg. Kath. 82 Ha heold hire aldrene hird wisliche & warliche. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 55 Þe heorte is wel iloket ȝef muð. & ehe. & eare. wisliche beon ilokene. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 343 I wayted wisloker. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1613 That they be weisely wachede and in warde holdene. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxvi. 123 Qwhen þai ga to were, þai hafe þam riȝt warly and wysely. 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount f. 111 Powre the said water fynely and wisely into some other vessel that is cleane. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 589 I raid on full richt, To watche wyselie the wayis. 1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 28 in Jewell House If you holde the same [glass] wisely..you shall see the wine ascende in the forme of a clowd. †3. Skilfully, cleverly, ingeniously; cunningly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adverb] > with skill or art > ingeniously craftilyeOE wiselya1000 guisily13.. quaintc1300 quaintlyc1300 subtly1340 cunningly?a1400 subtilelyc1405 subtilelyc1405 prettilyc1450 industriouslyc1487 ingeniously1548 clerkly1594 ambidextrously1657 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adverb] foxlyc1175 craftilyc1225 craftlyc1225 slylyc1275 fellyc1300 quaintc1300 quaintlyc1325 sleightlyc1330 subtly1340 sly1370 espyinglya1382 wisely1390 wililya1400 wilyc1400 subtilelyc1405 ginnouslya1425 semylyc1440 serpentlya1450 small?c1450 cautelously1477 politicly1477 sleightfullyc1480 artificiously1536 insidiously1545 sleightily1549 artificially1566 cunningly1603 versutely1616 artfully1631 subdolously1638 serpentinely1656 slimlya1680 pawkily1714 politically1764 trickfullyc1790 trickishly1824 leerily1859 dodgily1868 trickily1895 foxily1933 OE Genesis 456 Oððæt he Adam on eorðrice, godes handgesceaft, gearone funde, wislice geworht, and his wif somed. a1000 Boeth. Metr. xx. 15 Þu þe unstilla agna gesceafta to ðinum willan wislice astyrest. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3630 God it tagte al ear moysen Wislike hu it wrogt sulde ben. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 255 With his wordes slyhe and queinte, The whiche he cowthe wysly peinte. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. lxxiv. 44 She wolde it were so wysliche moolded and so subtylliche that bi seemynge it were litel. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) ii. sig. V3^v The hiues of wisely painfull Bees. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 28 Here comes my Lady: make your excuse wisely, you were best. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.c900adv.c888
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† wiselyadj.

wiselyadv.