2. Adverb. (not comparable) In terms of a man. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Manwise
1. in a manner characteristic of man [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manwise
Literary usage of Manwise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Review of Education (1902)
"A half-grown boy wants manly subjects, and he wants to tackle them manwise.
Trees have bigness, and strength, and a fine air of lofty indifference. ..."
2. Early Days in Arkansas: Being for the Most Part the Personal Recollections by William F. Pope, Dunbar H. Pope (1895)
"The women rode ponies, manwise, and had their papooses slung in blankets at their
backs. These two tribes were attended by their principal chiefs, ..."
3. America at the Front by Fullerton Leonard Waldo (1918)
"... manwise to the oars, in her yellow sweater and white skirt, a naiad of the
rushes who seemed to have risen out of the stream, its own authentic spirit. ..."
4. Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History by Samuel Gordon Heiskell, John Sevier (1920)
"The women rode ponies, manwise, and had their papooses slung in the blankets on
their backs. These two tribes were attended by their principal chiefs, ..."
5. Ridpath's Universal History: An Account of the Origin, Primitive Condition by John Clark Ridpath (1897)
"... and beyond and without the universe, working thereon as if with his hands,
and making, manwise, both the substance and the forms of all things that are, ..."
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