human-likeadj.adv.

1642 J. de la March Complaint False Prophets Mariners 70 A very destroyer, who (by the bitter poyson of his..superstitious service & human-like liturgie..) hath killed both corporally and spiritually many of those fishes.

1698 E. Settle Def. Dramatick Poetry 104 What is the Eye, the Ear, the Hand, or the Face of God..any thing more than mere Notion; that Infinity and Omnipotence..thus humbly drawn into that human like Figure in Miniature.

1728 G. Vane 2nd Ess. Catholick-relig. 15 The heathen Priesthood ascribed to their supposed Deities, not only humanlike Infirmities and Wants, but also humanlike Vices.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 239 The human-like figure of their hands and feet.

1813 R. Southey Life Nelson I. 15 No other animal has so humanlike an expression in its countenance.

1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. i. 13 The mare..uttered a sort of human-like scream.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 890 The monk-fish or sea-bishop..had a human-like head with the mitre of a bishop, and the limbs of a man, but the scale-covered body of a fish.

1991 N.Y. Times 10 Nov. v. 33/4 She found a hominid skull with enormous humanlike teeth that was 1.7 million years old.

1748 T. Blackwell Lett. conc. Mythol. xiv. 182 The Vulgar..took the Gods to be real human-like Persons, tho' of immortal Nature.

1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 198 Their natives are, some humanlike and some Of great gigantic grace.

1883 O. Schreiner Story Afr. Farm (new ed.) ii. i. 271 Whether a man believes in a human-like God or no is a small thing.

1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. iii. 63 Fragmentary remains, considered to be essentially more human-like though still preserving Australopithecine features, have been described..under the generic name of Telanthropus.

1980 M. Crichton Congo 206 It was no longer possible to put them in diapers and pretend they were cute humanlike creatures.

2006 New Scientist 14 Oct. 43/2 Our feeling of familiarity increases as robots appear more and more human-like.

1700 E. Ward Journey to Hell 6 Where greater Serpents do the less devour, And Human-like, contend for Sov'reign Pow'r.

1741 Coll. Parl. Deb. Eng. II. 298 Should he creep into the court, in a Jesuit's habit, and human like, get a commission to cut all our throats.

1826 E. B. Barrett Ess. on Mind 13 Thou stoop'st to love the glory thou hast made; And weepest, human-like, the mortal's fall, When, by-and-bye, a breath disperses all.

1871 W. M. W. Call Golden Hist. 80 The deadly lion comes, subdued and meek, And human-like, looks in my human face.

2001 D. A. MacKenzie Mechanizing Proof iii. 87 The new heuristics ‘reduced (the theorem) to its essence,’ and the automated system ‘acted “humanlike” in getting to the “nub of the problem”’.