wishedly

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adverb

According to one's wish; as is or was desired.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adverbwishedly (comparative more wishedly, superlative most wishedly)

comparative more wishedly · superlative most wishedly

  1. obsoleteAccording to one's wish; as is or was desired.

    To set so wishedly his footing there

    1614–1615, Homer, “The Fourth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC

Origin

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Chicago

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