FromMiddle Englishwarysshen, fromAnglo-Normanwaris-, the present participle stem ofwarir, fromOld Frenchguarir (modernguérir), fromFrankish*warjan, fromProto-Germanic*warjaną. Compareguarish.
warish (third-person singular simple presentwarishes,present participlewarishing,simple past and past participlewarished)
- (obsolete, transitive) Tocure orheal (an illness or a person).
1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e.,Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, inPhilemon 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 whowarish and cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To get better; torecover from an illness.
warish (comparativemorewarish,superlativemostwarish)
- Alternative form ofwarrish(“warlike”).
1861, Thomas Adams,The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus, page404:... life : and that awarish, 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 awarish, militaristic context, i.e., the positioning of armed forces...
- 2004,Instructor's Manual for Velasquez'sPhilosophy, A Text with Readings (→ISBN):
- [...] the state of nature is awarish, brutal state.
