warish

present singular third person warishes · participle present warishing · participle past warished · past warished

1. obsoletetransitiveTo cure or heal (an illness or a person).

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

   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

2. intransitiveobsoleteTo get better; to recover from an illness.

comparative more warish · superlative most warish

1. alternativeAlternative form of warrish (“warlike”).

   … the state of nature is a warish, brutal state.

   2004, Instructor's Manual for Velasquez's Philosophy, A Text with Readings

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

   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

   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...

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