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Onywis(e, n. phr. (adv.). Also: onye-, oni- and -wys(e, -wyis, -wyes. [ME. aniȝewise (c 1200), e.m.E. anywise (1660), also e.m.E. in any wyse (1472), OE. on ǽniᵹe wīsan. Cf. Ony-way and Onywayis.] a. adv. In any way, by any means. a1400 Leg. S. xxxvi. 752.
Ȝet entre he ne mycht onywise [: cyse] Ib. xxxvii. 182.
I … wil nocht onywyse [: dispyse] Thou to my ioy make lessing a1500 Bk. Chess 1456.
Quhat suld thi frendschipe ony wys That so planely me my request denys 1526 Reg. Privy S. I. 525/1.
The King … respettis … all his … subditis that hes onywyse resset or intercommonit with the said Johne 1552 Boyd Fam. P. No. 39 (16 March).
All richt … quhilkis I or thai had hes or ony wyes may clame 1573 Grant Chart. 153.
To the effect the saidis … treis … suld nocht be cuttit doun nor onyewyis destroyit 1577 Reg. Morton I. 94.
Guidis … pertening or that mycht onywyis have pertenit to his majestie 1593 Lennox Mun. 463.
Any clething that salbe ony wys begaried [etc.] 1596 Dalr. II. 161/31.
Gif Arran onywise falset his faith or brak his promise c 1596 Glasgow Prot. V. xvi.
Oniwyis

b. In (on, be) ony wise, id.(1) ?1438 Alex. ii. 365.
He thocht how he on ony wyse Micht win to honour and to pryse(2) 1475 Acts II. 112/1.
That … nouther siluer nor gold that beris prent … be in ony wis moltyn a1500 Quare Jel. 348.
To reule him self in onywyse a1500 Seven S. 1781.
In ony wys 1560 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 86.
To … blasfleme the name of God in ony wys 1570 Leslie 183.
Nane of thame durst in ony wyis stur 1599 Acts IV. 180/2.
In onywyis to sell [etc.](3) c1500-c1512 Dunb. ix. 142 (M).
In flude or slauchter culpable gif I be Be ony wyse [B. ony maner] deid counsale or consent