warish

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English warysshen, from Anglo-Norman waris-, the present participle stem of warir, from Old French guarir (modern guérir), from Frankish *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną. Compare guarish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɒɹɪʃ/

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Verb

warish (third-person singular simple present warishes, present participle warishing, simple past and past participle warished)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cure or heal (an illness or a person).
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

     Varro testifieth, that even at this day there be some there who warish and cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To get better; to recover from an illness.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːɹɪʃ/

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Adjective

warish (comparative more warish, superlative most warish)

1. Alternative form of warrish (“warlike”).
   • 1861, Thomas Adams, The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus, page 404:

     ... life : and that a warish, short, and transient life.

   • 1974, Every librarian a manager: proceedings of a conference (Special Libraries Association, Indiana Chapter, Purdue University. Libraries and Audio-Visual Center):

     Because we found that operations management, strategic management of war forces, proved to have a lot of value, strategic management was shifted over into the arena of the industrial organization. So you'll notice the definition of strategy comes very much from a warish, militaristic context, i.e., the positioning of armed forces...

   • 2004, Instructor's Manual for Velasquez's Philosophy, A Text with Readings (→ISBN):

     [...] the state of nature is a warish, brutal state.

Anagrams

• hwairs, rawish