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lakish, a.|ˈleɪkɪʃ|
[f. lake n.4 + -ish1.]
1.
†a. Abounding in lakes or pools.
†b. Inhabiting a lake.
c. Like a lake.
1590Greene Orl. Fur. (1599) F 3, I know he knowes that watrie lakish hill. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., Fishes which are..lakish, as the Umbla, trout, carp [etc.]. 1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. xi. §1 (1689) 110 All Fishes, whether Marine, Fluviatile, or Lakish. 1872G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 222 The broad smooth fall of a lakish apron of water.
2. Of or pertaining to the Lake poets; resembling the productions of those poets. rare.
1819Abelard & Heloisa 222 Oh! that we had the Lakish pow'r To dwell on owls!—for half an hour. 1822Blackw. Mag. XI. 478 The Edinburgh Reviewers would say it was a Lakish rant. 1831Ibid. XXIX. 218 This couplet..was pronounced ‘lakish’. 1946Mod. Lang. Q. Dec. 497 Bitterly as he attacked Southey for his faults, Jeffrey did not accuse him of the ‘Lakish’ fault of ‘mysticism’.
Hence ˈlakishness.
1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 218 Talking of lakishness—the Southrons..have a strange idea of the Lakes. |