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boxwise en · ADV

Etymology

From box + -wise.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In the form of a box.
    • ...lying on his side enclosed by stones that had been placed boxwise round him, and surrounded by his burial-offerings of jugs and bowls. 1958, Lady Margaret Collingridge Wheeler, Walls of Jericho:
    • First, it should appear to be a part of the site and not a foreign element set up boxwise on edge to the utter humiliation of every natural thing in sight. 1992?, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1894-1931