Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In other ways; otherwise.
  • Different; of another sort or kind; other.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete In another manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb obsolete In another manner.

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Examples

  • Here comes Sir Toby halting; you shall hear more: but if he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates than he did.

    Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 2004

  • [Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and Clown] Here comes Sir Toby halting; you shall hear more: but if he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates than he did.

    Twelfth Night; or What You Will 1601

  • I will have thee to understand once for all that I am no dotard, as thou deemest me, and this she hath right well perceived, she; but I will make her feel it othergates fashion, so once I get my claw into her back; by the very body of Christ, I will lead her such a dance that she will run after me, as the madwoman after her child. '

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

  • you shall hear more: but if he had not been in drink he would have tickled you othergates than he did.

    Act V. Scene I. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will 1914

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