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▪ I. unˈlike, a. and n.
Forms: 3–4 un-, vnlich, 4 -liche (-lichy, 5 onliche), -leche; 3 unnlic, 4 vnlic, -lijc, 4–5 vnlyk, 5–6 vnlyke (6 -leke), 3– unlike.
[ME. unlīch(e, unlīk(e (un-1 7), corresponding to OE. unᵹelíc uniliche a. Cf. OFris. (NFris.) unlik, obs. Du. onlijk, MLG. (LG.) unlîk, ON. úlíkr (Icel. ólíkur, MSw. oliker, olika, Sw. olik, olika, MDa. ulig, ulige, Da. and Norw. ulig, Norw. ulik).]
1. Not like or resembling, different from, dissimilar to (some other person or thing).
c1200Ormin 16859 Forr all þatt follc let tatt he wass Unnlic all oþerr lede. a1225Juliana 14 Ich am iweddet to an..þe is unlich him. 1390Gower Conf. III. 64 He was unlich all othre there. 1553R. Ascham Germany ⁋14 He thought it his most honor to be vnlykest such for his gentlenes, which were misliked..for their crueltie. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. ix. 56 How much [thou art] vnlike my hopes and my deseruings! 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 183 [The banana] giues a most delicious..rellish, not much vnlike our choicest Peares. 1676Glanvill Ess. vi. 30 Those, whose Genius and Ways are so unlike him. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 221 A form enormous! far unlike the race Of human birth, in stature. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 112 Some jaspers are not much unlike red porphyry. 1829Jas. Mill Hum. Mind (1869) II. 252 As unlike to any of those..as the sensation of white is unlike the sensations of the seven prismatic colours. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 401 The philosopher has notions of good and evil unlike those of other men.
b. Const. to; also (quot. 1873) from.
1340–70Alex. & Dind. 271 Oure lif & oure lawe vnlich is to ȝoure. c1400Rom. Rose 6360 Vnlyk is my word to my dede. c1450Myrr. our Ladye 224 How vnlyke worldely worshyp is vnto gostly ioye. 1531Elyot Gov. ii. xiv, This maner of flatery is mooste unlyke to that whiche is communely used. 1556Olde Antichrist 116 b, Two heades.., farre unlyke the one to the other. 1670Baxter Cure Ch. Div. 238 You would shew yourselves much..unliker to Satan the accuser. 1825Scott Betrothed xiv, Their very saints are unlike to the saints of any Christian country. 1873Pater Stud. Hist. Renaiss. 80 They were of a spirit as unlike as possible from that of Lorenzo. 1876Gladstone Glean. (1879) II. 271 He was very unlike to any other man.
2. Not like each other; different, dissimilar.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 1726 Ðoȝ him boren ðes ones bles Vnlike maniȝe and likeles. c1380Antechrist in Todd Three Treat. Wyclif (1851) 150 Loke Cristis copborde, and hers; and þei ben ful unlichy. 1565Stapleton tr. Bede's Hist. Ch. Eng. 25b, The parties there wer farre vnleke of condition. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxiii. §29 The unlikest in the worlde; the one being fierce..; the other solemn. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. i. iv. 13 There can be no possible imitation of Lording over their brethren in regard of their persons altogether unlike. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I. s.v., Unlike Quantities and Signs in Algebra. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. ii. 283 How fair these names, how much unlike they look. 1842Francis Dict. Arts, Unlike quantities, in algebra, are such as are expressed by different letters, or different roots or powers of the same letter. 1889Gretton Memory's Harkb. 125 We may take together two other Judges,..as unlike as the bear and the innate gentleman.
absol.1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. v, This approximation of the Like and Unlike. Ibid., In this case of the Like-Unlike.
b. n. pl. Dissimilar things or persons.
1612W. Sclater Sick Souls Salve 1 He amplifies it in a comparison of unlikes. a1626― Comm. Malachy (1650) 66 It is handled in a plenary comparison of unlikes. 1857J. Pulsford Quiet Hours 43 Like can reach like, and act upon it, in a way that unlikes cannot.
3.
†a. Differing from others of the kind; incomparable; unusual. Obs.
1390Gower Conf. II. 275 Bot certes such usure unliche It falleth more unto the riche. 14..R. Gloucester's Chron. (MS. Digby 205) fol. 26 He was in his lyue euer ryȝt ryche Of richesse before al oþer he was vnliche.
b. Differing from, dissimilar to, the thing or person in question. Also absol.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. vi. (1868) 138 Ne it ne is nat an vnlyke miracle to hem þat ne knowen it nat. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 5 Nor a muche vnlyke aunswere dyd Wylliam, late archebishop of Canterbury,..gyue vnto me. 1595Daniel Civ. Wars v. lxxxii, He saw prepard, against his side, Both vnlike fortune, and vnequall force. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 517 Part hidd'n veins diggd up (nor hath this Earth Entrails unlike) of Mineral and Stone. 1847Helps Friends in C. Ser. i. I. ix. 166 Not only like likes like, but unlike likes unlike. 1865Swinburne Atalanta 620 A god Faultless; whom I that love not, being unlike, Fear, and give honour. 1877E. R. Conder Bas. Faith ii. 81 Awaiting the presence of unlike atoms to call them forth in turn.
c. n. A person differing from another or others.
13..Sir Beues (A.) 1099 Her is..min vnliche, Brademond king, þat is so riche. [Cf. uniliche n.]
1875Jowett Plato (ed 2) III. 219 The just does not desire more than his like but more than his unlike. 1896Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 494 As long as it remains a stranger and an unlike.
4. Presenting points of difference or dissimilarity; not uniform or even; unequal.
c1375Cursor M. 7917 (Fairf.), Þer was wonande þat was vn-like ij men a pouer and a rike. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 289 Þere was unleche noumbre of array of knyȝtes, for aȝenst an hondred..come a þowsand. 1535Coverdale Ecclus. xxvi. 7 Whan an vnlike pare of oxen must drawe together. c1550H. Lloyd Treasury of Health b 5 If the water do appeare vnlike of substance. 1642J. Eaton Honey-c. Free Justif. 261 That unlike likenesse betweene Adam and Christ, which the Apostle speaks of, Rom. 5. 1645Milton Tetrach. 9 Where the different sexe in most resembling unlikenes, and most unlike resemblance, cannot but please best.
5. Unlikely, improbable. Now dial. or arch.
a. With subordinate clause.
c1400Destr. Troy. 565 The perlouse pointtes þat passe you behoues, Hit is vnlike any lede with his liffe pas. 1400–10Clanvowe Cuckow & Night. ix, Hit is vnlyk for to be That eny herte shulde slepy be [etc.]. 1535Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) I. 413 It is not vnlike but that the saide Duke hathe ben deceyued. 1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1663) 235 Neither is it unlike, but that these circumstances might be. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God, Vives' Comm. viii. xi. 317 It is vnlike that so sharpe a wit..found not the difference and multitude of things. 1729T. Innes Crit. Essay (1879) 230 In process of time..it is not unlike there might come..new colonies from Spain. 1795Southey Joan of Arc iii. 401 Whether so [it is] not unlike Heaven might vouchsafe its gracious miracle. a1905in Eng. Dial. Dict. (Yks., Warw.).
b. With inf.
1400–10[see a]. 1538Henry VIII in Wyatt's Wks. (1816) II. 498 Unjust..demands, and unlike to proceed out of a willing heart to conclude. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. iii. xviii. 54 Being through age unlike to live one whole yeare. 1626in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 286 He thought the Match very unlike to be effected. 1655Earl of Orrery Parthen. i. i. 26 This Arabian was not altogether unlike to escape unpunished. 1665Boyle Occas. Relf. i. iii. 168 Blessings, that I do not so much as know of, and which consequently I am very unlike particularly to acknowledge.
†c. Without likelihood of something. Obs.—1
1559Mirr. Mag., Fall R. Tresilian xiv, Thus all went to wracke vnlyke of remedie.
▪ II. unˈlike, adv.
Forms: 4–5 vnliche, 4 onlyche; 4–7 vnlike (5 -lyk, 6 -lyke), 7, 9 unlike.
[un-1 11 b. Cf. uniliche adv.]
†1.
a. Unevenly, unequally; in a higher or lower degree. Obs.
a1300Fragm. Seven Sins 55 in E.E.P. (1862) 20 Worldis wel falliþ vnliche, and noȝt euch man ilich. 1390Gower Conf. III. 89 Theologie in such a wise Of hih science and hih aprise Above alle othre stant unlike. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xvi. 2594 Na man..euer couþ tell..A maire commendable memore, As þai did of þis pure kinrik, In þat batall bodin vnlike.
†b. Incomparably. Obs.
14..R. Gloucester's Chron. (MS. Digby 205) fol. 19 b, Cloten hadde most riȝte to þis kyngeryche But þe oþere were strenger & rycher vnliche [v.r. onlyche]. c1425Cursor M. 5325 (Trin.), Þe kyng lete write lettres ȝare To gider alle..Þe beste in þat londe vnliche.
2.
†a. Differently, diversely. Also const. to.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 5 Whiche the Romayns vsed, but vnlyke to vs. 1552Huloet, Vnlyke or in a diuers fashyon, dissimiliter. 1595in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. V. 350 Some tyme yt pleaseth God to reveale his wille..by dreames, as He did to Joseph, Pharo, and others, and here not unlike to His designed martyr.
b. In a manner differing from (that of a specified person).
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, i. i. 189 Oft haue I seene the haughty Cardinall..demeane himselfe Vnlike the Ruler of a Common-weale. 1619Sir A. Gorges tr. Bacon's De Sap. Vet. 82 This Loue..directing his pace..by that which it perceaues neerest, not vnlike blind men that goe by feeling. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 14 A little haire before, bauld else-where, not vnlike occasion. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxi, The Master has treated me unlike a gentleman. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 387 They stand apart from all the others, because, unlike these, they applied [etc.].
†3. Improbably; unlikely. Obs.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V, 67 b, Some say that he was therto stirred..by the dolphyn (and not vnlike). 1596Spenser F.Q. v. v. 38 And, though (vnlike) they should for euer last, Yet in my truthes assurance I rest fixed fast.
▪ III. † unˈlike, v.1 Obs. rare.
[un-1 14.]
a. intr. To become displeased.
b. trans. To displease.
c1275Lay. 3266 Leir king was wel ipaid and eft onlikede. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 267 He haþ sorwe of þe synne, bi resoun þat it unlikiþ God.
▪ IV. unˈlike, v.2 rare.
[un-2 7.]
intr. To give up liking; to cease to like.
1761F. Sheridan Sidney Bidulph I. 183 My heart is not in a disposition to love... I cannot compel it to like and unlike, and like anew at pleasure. |