witch-likeadj.adv.

1607 R. Pricket Iesuits Miracles sig. B4^v Shall misbeliefe (as if no truth were taught) Teach vs (from God) for witch-like helpe to runne.

1723 R. Blackmore Alfred xii. 410 Rebellion's Witch-like Charms the Senses bind.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 20 She was..the same witch-like figure as when we first introduced her.

1909 National Mag. Mar. 627/2 Because the milk is not forthcoming, the witch-like brewer of the incantation is adding a furious growling to the bubbling of the pot.

2015 A. Mulligan Liquidator 55 Before I knew it she'd got her wrinkly old witch-like hand up and pinched me, right on the cheek.

1613 G. Chapman Epicede sig. C2^v We shal see our foule-mouth'd factions spite (Markt, witch-like, with one blacke eie, th'other white) Ope, & oppose against this spotlesse sun.

1768 J. Parsons Life 18 Witch-like, the Pot they stir with Toil and Trouble.

1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 412 Nor was it possible to have told which was mother, which daughter; both alike seemed witch-like old.

1989 S. S. Matheson Prairie Pictures (2014) vii. 76 I scowled witch-like. ‘You better be good, little girl, or I'm gonna get you!’