warish

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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/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɔːɹɪʃ/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)

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.

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