a. Obs. [-ISH.] Worm-like; as weak or despicable as a worm.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, V. (1922), 177. In such a shadowe, or rather pit of darkenes, the wormish mankinde lives, that neither they knowe how to foresee, nor what to feare.
1616. Hayward, Sanct. Troub. Soul, I. § 3. 52. Be not angry with vs (wormish weakelings) although we offend; for thou knowest what we are and whereof we are made.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., I. 3. I haue a … iudgement to discerne such wormish waspes.
