Obs. rare. Forms: 1 wislic, 3 wislich, 4 comp. wislier, 5 wysely, 6 wysley, 7 wisely. [OE. wíslic: see WISE a. and -LY1.] = WISE a. 1.
c. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., II. xiii. (1890), 134. Me þynceð wislic, ʓif þu ʓeseo þa þing beteran,… þæt we þam onfon.
a. 1023. Wulfstan, Hom., i. (1883), 4. Ðonne is eac wislic ræd, þæt manna ʓehwylc ʓeornlice smeaʓe.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 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. J. de Flores’ Aurelio & Isab., E 8. Vnto howre wysley wordes.
