belikes

Verb (1)

belike (third-person singular simple present belikes, present participle beliking, simple past and past participle beliked)

1. (transitive) To make like; simulate.
2. (transitive) 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.2000, Helen May Dennis, Ezra Pound and poetic influence

Verb (2)

belike (third-person singular simple present belikes, present participle beliking, simple past and past participle beliked)

1. (impersonal) 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. …"1903, The story of King Arthur and his knights
2. (transitive) To like; be pleased with.

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