belike
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belike¹
Where it comes from
From Middle English beliken (“to simulate, feign”), equivalent to be- + like.
verb belikes · beliking · beliked
- To make like; simulate.
- To be like; resemble. The most beautiful passages of Arnaut are in the canzo beginning: Sweet cries and cracks and lays and chants inflected By auzels who, in their Latin belikes.
belike²
verb belikes · beliking · beliked
- To be pleasing to; please. Yea," said King Arthur, " it belikes me more than any horse that I ever beheld before." " Then," quoth Queen Morgana, "consider it as a gift of reconciliation betwixt thee and me. …"
- To like; be pleased with.
noun belikes
- An object of affection or liking. She will always be one of my belikes.
belike³
adverb
- Likely, probably, perhaps, haply. It seems, you lov'd not her, to leave her token: / She's dead, belike.
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