slaveish

adj

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of slavish.

   “[W]e doe now hold our ſelves bound in mutuall duty to each other, to take the beſt care we can for the future, TO AVOID BOTH THE DANGER of returning into a ſlaveish condition & the chargeable remedie OF ANOTHER WARR.”

   “[S]he shall do no manner of slaveish work, that is, she is not to work in the ground at the hoe nor further in the tending of a garden or to help plant.”

   “[T]he slaveish sooty race boasts a succession of Codringtons as well as Griggs and Russells, and others of low degree, and that a sober Mr. Perrie and old Col. Williams, as well as young Mr. Warner, are in the list of their paramours etc., etc., yet these are the men that charge me of a lewd life and conversation.”

   ““What illes betide the manne, who ſeekes to reſt / “His hope, upon the fraile, and footleſſe toppe / “Of vaine Ambition’s ladder!—His aſcent / “A ray of guileful fortune circleth rounde, / “To lure the ſlaveish gaze of baſe idolaters!”

   “When ing or ish is added to words ending with silent e, the e is almost universally omitted: as, place, placing; lodge, lodging; slave, slaveish;^([sic]) prude, prudeish.^([sic])”