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In like manner; likewise. [Obs.]

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. "To alter the king's course." "To alter the condition of a man." "No power in Venice can alter a decree." Shak. It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out…

The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. [R.] For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.

hange regularly. The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil. Grew.

To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum. Ure.

To cut off (a limb or projecting part (of the body). Wiseman.

ent or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical. Wiseman.

of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his namesake surnamed the Wise. Fuller.

The act or making narrow; a straitening or contacting. Wiseman.

Good against scrofulous disorders. Johnson. Wiseman.

hilosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.

In any measure; anywise; at all. Mine old good will and hearty affection towards you is not . . . anything at all quailed. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Anywise; at all. Tennyson. Southey.

The act of opening; an opening; an aperture. [Archaic] Wiseman.

To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus. Wiseman.

formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. [Written corruptly imposthumation.] Wiseman.

A decoction or infusion. [Obs.] Wiseman.

The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.

nd blood atoned for blood. Pope. The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by any wise or popular measure. Junius.