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•men, why might not all other planets be created for the 
like ufes, each for their own inhabitants ? Bentley. 
His fon, or one of his illuftrious name. 
How like the former, and almoft the fame ! Dryden. 
Equal; of the fame quantity.—More clergymen were im¬ 
poverished by the late war, than ever in the like fpace be¬ 
fore. Spratt. —[For likely.] Probable ; credible.—The trials 
were made, and it is like that the experiment would have 
been effeaual. Bacon.—L\ke\y ; in a Hate that gives pro¬ 
bable expectations. An improper, though frequent, ufe. 
—If the duke continues thefe favours towards you, you 
are like to be much advanced. Shakefpeare's Twelfth Night. 
—He is like to die for hunger, for there is no more bread. 
Jer. xxxviii. 9. , 
LIKE, /. [feldom more than the adjective tiled ellip¬ 
tical ly ; the like for the like thing , or like perfonf] Some per- 
fon or thing refembling another.—Every like is not the 
fame, O Csefar 1 ShaheJ'peare.— Though there have been 
greater fleets for number, yet for the bulk ot the Clips 
never the like. Bacon's War with Spain. 
He was a man, take him for all and all, 
I fhall not look upon his like again. Shakefpeare. 
One offers, and in offering makes a flay; 
Another forward fets, and doth no more ; 
A third the like. Daniel's Civil War. 
His defire 
By converfation with his like to help. 
Or folace his defeats. Milton's ParadiJ'e loft. 
She’d ftudy to reform the men, 
Or add fome grains of folly more, 
To women than they had before ; 
This might their mutual fancy (trike. 
Since ev’ry being loves its like. Swift. 
LIKE, adv. In the fame manner; in the fame manner 
as : it is not always eafy to determine whether it be adverb 
or adjeftive.— Like as a father pitieth his children, fo the 
Lord pitieth them that fear him. Pfal. ciii. 13. 
The joyous nymphs, and lightfoot fairies, 
Which thither came to hear their nrufic fweet. 
Now hearing them fo heavily lament, 
Like heavily lamenting from them went. Spenfer. 
What will be my confufion, when he fees me 
NegleCted, and forfaken like himfelf! Phillips. 
In fuch a manner as befits.—Be ftrong, and quit your- 
felves/zdc men. 1 Sam. iv. 9.—Likely ; probably. A popular 
ufe, not analogical: 
I like the work well ; ere it be demanded, 
As like enough it will, I’d have it copied. Shakefpeare. 
To LIKE, v. a. [lican, Sax. liiken, Dut.] To choofe 
with fome degree of preference.—As nothing can be fo 
reafonably fpoken as to content all men, fo this fpeech 
was not of them all liked. Knolles. —We like our prefent 
circumftances well, and dream of no change. Atterbury.— 
To approve; to view with approbation, not fondnefs.— 
Though they did not like the evil he did, yet they liked 
him that did the evil. Sidney. 
For feveral virtues 
I have lik'd feveral women ; never any 
With fo full foul. Shakefpeare's Tempefl. 
To pleafe ; to be agreeable to. Now difufed. —This defire 
being recommended to her majefty, it liked her to include 
the fame within one entire leafe. Bacon. 
Well hoped he, ere long that hardy gueft. 
If ever covetous hand, or luftful eye, 
Or lips he laid on thing that lik'd him befl, 
Should be his prey. Spenfer's Fairy Queen. 
Say, my fair brother now, if this device 
Do like you, or may you to like entice. Hubberd. 
To liken.—And like me to the peafant boys of France. 
Shakefpeare. 
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To LIKE, v. n. To be pleafed with : with of before the 
thing approved. Obfolete. — Of any thing more than of G od 
they could not by any means like, as long as whatfoever 
they knew belides God, they apprehended it not in itfelf 
without dependency upon God. Hooker. —The young fol- 
diers did with fuch cheerfulnefs like of this refolution, 
that they thought two days a long delay. Knolles. —To 
choofe; to lilt; to be pleafed.—He that has the prifon. 
doors let open is perfectly at liberty, becaufe he may ei¬ 
ther go or ftay, as he belt likes. Locke. 
LI'KELIHOOD, or Liveliness, f [from likely .] 
Appearance ; (how. Obfolete : 
What of his heart perceive you in his face, 
By any likelihood he ihow’d to-day ? Shakefpeare. 
Refemblance; likenefs. Obfolete. —There is no likelihood 
between pure light and black darknefs, or between righte- 
oufnefs and reprobation. Raleigh. 
As by a low but loving likelihood, 
Were now the general of our gracious emprefs, 
As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, 
How many would the peaceful- city quit 
To welcome him ? Shakefpeare's Henry V. 
Probability ; verifimilitude ; appearance of truth.—Where 
things are lealt to be put to the venture, as the eternal 
interefts of the other world ought to be ; there every, 
even the leaft, probability or likelihood of danger, fhould 
be provided againft. South. —There are predictions of our 
Saviour recorded by the evangeliits, which were not com¬ 
pleted till after their deaths, and had no likelihood of being 
fo when they were pronounced by our bieffed Saviour. 
Addifon on the Chrifian Religion. —Thus, in all likelihood, 
would it be with a libertine, who (hould have a vilit from, 
the other world : the firft horror it raifed would go off, 
as new diverfions came on. Atterbury. 
It never yet did hurt, 
To lay down likelihood, and forms of hope. Shakefpeare. 
LI'KELINESS,yi Probability; appearance; comelinefs. 
LI'KELY, adj. [from to like.] Such as may be liked ; 
fuch as may pleafe.—'Thefe young companions make them- 
felves believe they love at the firlt looking of a likely 
beauty. Sidney. —Sir John, they are your likeliefl men ; I 
would have you ferved with the bed. Shakefpeare's Henry IV. 
Thofe argent fields more likely habitants, 
Tranflated faints, and middle fpirits hold 
Betwixt th’angelical and human kind. Milton. 
Probable ; fuch as may in reafon be thought or believed ; 
fuch as may be thought more reafonably than the con¬ 
trary : as, a likely ftory ; that is, a credible (for)'-. 
LI'KELY, adv. Probably; as may reafonably be 
thought.—While man was innocent, he was likely igno¬ 
rant of nothing that imported him to know. Glanville. 
To LI'KEN, v. a. [from like. ] To reprefent as having 
refemblance; to compare.—The prince broke your head 
for likening him to a linging-man of Windfor. Shakefpeare'$ 
Henry IV. 
For who, though with the tongue 
Of angels, can relate ? or to what tilings 
Liken on earth confpicuous, that may lift 
Human imagination to fuch height 
Of God-like power ? Milton's Paradife loft. 
LI'KENAS, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Warmeland : fixty miles north-north-welt of Philiplladt. 
LI'KENESS, f. Refemblance ; fimilitude.—A tranfla- 
tor is to make his author appear as charming as he can* 
provided he maintains his character, and makes him not 
unlike himfelf. Tranflation is a kind of drawing after 
the life, where there is a double fort of likenefs, a good one 
and a bad one. Dryden. 
They all do live, and moved are 
To multiply the likenefs of their kind. Spenfer. 
Form ; appearance.—Never came trouble to my houfe ia 
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