belike
Verb
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Verb
belike (belikes, present participle beliking; past and past participle beliked)
Verbbelike (belikes, present participle beliking; past and past participle beliked)
- (impersonal) To be pleasing to; please.
- 1903, The story of King Arthur and his knights:
- 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. [...]"
- 1903, The story of King Arthur and his knights:
- (transitive) To like; be pleased with.
belike (plural belikes)
Adverbbelike (not comparable)
- (archaic or dialectal, Northern England) Likely, probably, perhaps, haply.
- circa 1589-93 William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV scene iv:
- It seems, you lov'd not her, to leave her token: / She's dead, belike.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition III, section 1, member 2, subsection iii:
- For that reason, belike, Homer feigns the three Graces to be linked and tied hand in hand, because the hearts of men are so firmly united with such graces.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 558:
- Upon this he brought me a cotton bag and giving it to me, said, "Take this bag and fill it with pebbles from the beach and go forth with a company of the townsfolk to whom I will give a charge respecting thee. Do as they do and belike thou shalt gain what may further thy return voyage to thy native land."
- 1904, G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill
- And when the pedants bade us mark / What cold mechanic happenings / Must come; our souls said in the dark, / "Belike; but there are likelier things."
- circa 1589-93 William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV scene iv:
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