adv. [f. ELSE + -WISE.] In some other manner; in other circumstances, otherwise.

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1548.  Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. iii. 3. This matter … would elswise haue caused much spyte.

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1549.  Coverdale, Erasm. Par. Rom. i. 29. Whiche wer elswyse ful of al naughtynes.

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1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. 97. Elsewise the world got up at eight.

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1888.  Ballard Smith, in N. Amer. Rev., Feb., 214. The leaders elsewise have declared themselves … as his enthusiastic supporters.

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