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† ˈself-like, a. and adv. Obs.
[In A. 1, f. self a. + like a.; cf. selfsame; in A. 2 and B., f. self n. + like.]
A. adj.
1. ‘Very like’, similar, of the selfsame kind.
1556Aurelio & Isab. G 3 You men be of the same selfe lyke qualite. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. Ecl. i. (1622) 95 Till Strephons plaining voice him nearer drew, Where by his words his selfe-like case he knew. 1594H. Willobie Avisa 19, I little thought to find you so:..Such selfe like wench I neuer met. 1596Lodge Marg. Amer. 114 This other in the selfe like passion, but with more government, he wrote.
2. Like oneself.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iv. Decay 1143 And so God bless your lawfull-loved womb With Self-like Babes [orig. enfans pareils à vous]. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. i. (1626) 6 His selfe-like jawes still grin [orig. ab ipso colligit os rabiem].
B. adv. Even; = selfly adv. 1 a.
1556Aurelio & Isab. H 7 In tyme & in place where they be not requiered, selfe lyke in the presence of so grete a Kinge & Quene. |