adv. [see -WISE.] In the manner or form of a circle.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apophth., 50 b. In olde tyme the places, where open sightes and shewes of games wher exhibited, wer made circlewise round about with settles or benches of marble.
1543. Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., I. vi. 7. Smalle threedes of veynes, and Arteryes produced circlewyse.
1567. Golding, Ovid’s Met., VII. (1593), 157. Before the moone should circle-wise close both her hornes in one.
1870. Rossetti, Blessed Damozel. Circlewise sit they, with bound locks And foreheads garlanded.
