a. rare. [f. WORLD sb. + -ISH1.] Of or belonging to this world; worldly.
13[?]. Cursor M., 22754 (Edin.). Al þinges þat ani werdische [v.r. werldis] hald wit hinges.
1340. Hampole, Pr. Consc., 951. Swilk men worldisshe men men calles Þat þair luf mast on þe world settes. Ibid., 1065–6. Þas men worldesshe men men calles, For about worldisshe þynges þai here travaile Ful bysily.
1827. Cunningham, Lass of Gleneslan-Mill, iv. Wert thou an idol all of gold, Had I the eye of worldish care, I could not … love thee mair.
