† belikev.¹

Forms: Middle English bilike, Middle English belyke.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: be- prefix, like adj.

Etymology: < be- prefix + like adj. With sense 2 compare Middle Low German belīken , belīkenen to equal, and also like v.² In quot. 1481 at sense 2 after Middle Dutch ghelijcken (Dutch gelijken ; see alike adv.; compare Middle Low German gelīken, Middle High German glīchen (German gleichen)).

Obsolete. rare.

1. transitive. To make like; to simulate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > simulation > simulate [verb (transitive)]

belikec1275

counterfeitc1374

imitate1598

dissemble1697

to go through the motions1816

to mock up1914

c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 842 (MED) Alle þine wordes boþ i-sliked, an so bisemed an biliked, þat alle þo þat hi a-uoþ, hi weneþ þat þu segge soþ.

2. transitive. To be like, to resemble; to match.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > render similar to [verb (transitive)] > be like, resemble, or take after

to bear a resemblance toa1225

semblec1330

resemble1340

to look likec1390

representa1398

belikec1475

assemble1483

express1483

to take after ——1553

figure1567

assimilate1578

besib1596

imitate1601

resemblance1603

respect1604

favour1609

image1726

mirror1820

facsimile1839

turn after ——1848

picture1850

c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) l. 334 (MED) Phebus hymself..May nat belyke the lyght of hir visage.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 25 Reynkyn my yongest sone..belyketh me so wel [Du. ghelijcket mi seer wel] I hope he shal folowe my stappes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

belikev.²

Brit.

/bᵻˈlʌɪk/, U.S.

/bəˈlaɪk/,

/biˈlaɪk/

Forms: see be- prefix and like v.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: be- prefix, like v.¹

Etymology: < be- prefix + like v.¹ Compare earlier like v.¹, ylike v.

Now archaic.

1. transitive. To like, to be pleased with. †Also intransitive with of (obsolete. rare).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > be pleased with [verb (transitive)]

belovec1275

likea1393

agreec1450

pleasea1522

belike1547

1547 C. Langton Very Brefe Treat. Phisick iv. iv. sig. Miii If it [sc. the spittle] be very yelow, tawny, grene, or blacke, or clammy w^t much fome, it is not to be beliked at all.

1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 144^v Such things as I in thee should haue belikte?

1706 N. W. Hist. George a Green xi. 97 To listen withal how he was beloved in those Parts, and his Government beliked of.

1826 T. Flint Francis Berrian I. iv. 121 By those tears, she belikes him.

1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. iv. xlviii. 142 Sprightly's preachers are so much beliked in the Purchase, that folks are always glad to see them.

?1913 C. W. H. Burns in Maintenance of Lobby to Infl. Legislation IV. 4232 Beliked by all whom he has met, So quiet, unassuming—yet A man once known, none forget, And such is ‘Billy Carson’.

1998 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 16 Oct. d2 Oprah loves Beloved. I only beliked it.

2. transitive. To be pleasing to, to please. Also with non-referential it as subject.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > please or give pleasure [verb]

ylikeeOE

belovec1225

savoura1300

belike1770

pleasure1937

1770 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer II. ix. 133 Let him, since it belikes him well, Stay where he is.

?1796 H. B. Dudley Passages on Trial Vortigern & Rowena (ed. 2) II. 59 A longe watche in so short a sea, belikes me not!

1850 W. M. Thackeray Let. Oct. (1945) 699 Your Ladyship's honour bade me to the pleasant new drinke of tea which belikes me well.

1877 Tinsleys' Mag. July 65/2 The title beliked him. It might look well on a card one day when custom sanctioned the adoption of the rank given him by these players.

1913 E. Hough Lady & Pirate 182 It belikes me much, fair maid, to disport me at ease this very eve, here on the deck, under the moon, and to hear you..touch the lute.

?1971 A. Davidson Peregrine (2000) iii. 74 The Imperial Fleet hath a writ of its own, a will of its own, and a way of enforcing that will which belikes me not at all.

2000 G. Morris Savage Damsel & Dwarf (2008) vi. 105 ‘A joust, then!’ shouted Sir Persant, ‘if it belikes you, Sir Bowman.’

Derivatives

beˈliked adj. (and n.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [adjective] > liked

likeda1547

favoured1725

beliked1848

1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Dial Princes (rev. ed.) iv. xi. f. 140 Therfore let not the beelyked thynk, if hee dare beleeue mee, etc.

1848 L. D. H. Zabranhi Heaven upon Earth Pref. 11 England, having long, long ago opened her beliked ring, plays for the belt (offices), and the nation looks uncommonly satisfactorily,..while Mr Tory and Mr Whig..exchange their mighty blows.

1988 Mother Jones July–Aug. 33/1 Charlie Haas..describes himself as the ‘beliked American humorist’.

1994 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 28 Sept. d1 It was a grisly, maniacal crime that has turned into a tense and twisting mystery drama involving probably the most famous and beliked athletic figure in America.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

belikeadv.adj.

Brit.

/bᵻˈlʌɪk/, U.S.

/bəˈlaɪk/,

/biˈlaɪk/

Forms: 1500s beelyke, 1500s beleek, 1500s be lyke, 1500s bilike, 1500s bilyke, 1500s byleeke, 1500s by like, 1500s bylyke, 1500s–1600s beelike, 1500s–1600s belyke, 1500s–1600s bylike, 1500s–1600s by lyke, 1500s– belike, 1600s bee-like; also Scottish 1800s bee-like, 1800s be-like.

Origin: Probably formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: by prep., like n.¹

Etymology: Probably < by prep. + like n.¹ (compare of (a) like at like n.¹ Phrases 1b, by (the) like at like n.¹ Phrases 1a, and also like adj.). The original sense probably was ‘by what is likely, by what seems’. Compare Old Frisian bilīke (only in the compound alsā bilīke ‘so, for example’).Compare English †beliken and Scots and English regional (Devon; now rare) belikes (adverb), in same sense:1603 H. Clapham Three Partes Salomon Song of Songs Expounded iii. xxxvii. 297 As for the old latine that readeth Bethel (belikes Lamed wanted the head, and so he tooke it for Resh) followed of Pope Sixtus in his edition, I set not onely all Hebrew coppies against that, but also Pope Clement his edition.1715 C. Johnson Country Lasses iv. ii. 66 The young Fellow and he beliken ha had some Words abouten their Sweethearts, and so he shotten,—That's aw.1892 S. Hewett Peasant Speech Devon 46 He's a 'igh-stummicked chap, 'e is; 'e aimeth tü gert thengs, an' belikes 'ell git um, tü.

Now archaic, literary, and British regional.

A. adv.

In all likelihood, probably. Also in weaker sense: perhaps, possibly.See also more belike at more adv. 6b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > [adverb]

welleOE

lightly1395

likely1395

likinglyc1395

by (also of) likeliheadc1405

by (also of) likelinessc1405

by all (also most) likelihood1427

provably1460

of (all) likelihood1491

belike?1531

like1548

belikelya1551

in (all) likelihood1570

probably1600

by (also in) probabilitya1602

in (also by) all probability1617

presumably1658

prob.1730

nigh hand1848

predictably1914

prolly1922

odds-on1976

?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye i. sig. c7^v Belyke thys man hath droncke of a merye cuppe.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 337^v Harpalus (who by like had a good insight in suche matiers).

a1547 J. Redford Wit & Sci. (1951) 3 He hath bethowghte hym dylygenge that way belyke most vsage hath wrowht hym studye ye hold your pease best we here now stay for instruccion.

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 73 By like all their ceremonies bee not so auncient.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. xxi. 206 The Pastorells killed in France... These took on them the name and habit of Pastorelli, poore shepherds; in imitation belike..of those in the Gospel.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 156 Will he, so wise, let loose at once his ire, Belike through impotence, or unaware.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 157 In 1572, and belike before, he had a Chamber.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 238 All these three, belike, went together.

1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 11 Belike they had been sent to Bridewell, hadn't a great Gentleman in a blue String come by and releas'd them.

a1771 T. Gray Agrippina in Poems (1775) 132 And a call, Like mine, might serve belike to wake pretensions Drowsier than theirs.

1800 W. Wordsworth Pet-lamb in Lyrical Ballads (ed. 2) II. 142 Things that I know not of belike to thee are dear.

1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 111/2 The man was a pompous sort of customer, and told Beard he knew the business as well as he did, better belike.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iv. 268 Caterpillar-like..Become the Painted Peacock, or belike The Brimstone-wing.

1920 M. Beerbohm Laughter in And even Now 316 The roars, belike, would have gradually subsided in dreadful rumblings of more than utterable or conquerable mirth.

1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse I. iii. xxiii. 313 ‘If you'll waft us a wee bit o' a skiff, captain,’ said he, ‘I'll put that in your lug will belike warm your pocket.’

1980 Times 8 Apr. 12/5 She is flexible, open, vulnerable... Belike; but she is also criminal and a tyrant.

1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 93 Or as Mercury with Venus trails harping about the universe and four phantasmic lights wink toward Jupiter, all belike to handsome music out of the spheres.

B. adj.

predicatively. Likely. Usually with to do something. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > [adjective] > likely to be or do

belike1550

probable1583

in liking1601

like1757

1550 T. Lever Fruitfull Serm. in Shroudes sig. Bv For they seme belyke to do moste good wyth ryches.

1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 21^v To the fourme of wordes he hath formed a wrangle, the matter he graunteth belike to be true.

1805 R. Southey Madoc i. iv. 45 They saw..our food belike to fail.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. I. 72/2 ‘That story's no be-like,’ Lanarks.

1898 G. R. Woodward Leg. Saints i. 16 The staff within his hand Such strain no longer well might stand, It was belike to break asunder.

1922 J. G. Smith Wednesday Wife xxiii. 191 Aletra's soul within her became aware that sharp, eager eyes were upon her, that they seemed belike to pierce the covering of her haik.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

v.¹c1275

v.²1547

adv.adj.?1531

单词	belike
释义	† belikev.¹ Forms: Middle English bilike, Middle English belyke. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: be- prefix, like adj. Etymology: < be- prefix + like adj. With sense 2 compare Middle Low German belīken , belīkenen to equal, and also like v.² In quot. 1481 at sense 2 after Middle Dutch ghelijcken (Dutch gelijken ; see alike adv.; compare Middle Low German gelīken, Middle High German glīchen (German gleichen)). Obsolete. rare. 1. transitive. To make like; to simulate. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > simulation > simulate [verb (transitive)] belikec1275 counterfeitc1374 imitate1598 dissemble1697 to go through the motions1816 to mock up1914 c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 842 (MED) Alle þine wordes boþ i-sliked, an so bisemed an biliked, þat alle þo þat hi a-uoþ, hi weneþ þat þu segge soþ. 2. transitive. To be like, to resemble; to match. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > render similar to [verb (transitive)] > be like, resemble, or take after to bear a resemblance toa1225 semblec1330 resemble1340 to look likec1390 representa1398 belikec1475 assemble1483 express1483 to take after ——1553 figure1567 assimilate1578 besib1596 imitate1601 resemblance1603 respect1604 favour1609 image1726 mirror1820 facsimile1839 turn after ——1848 picture1850 c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) l. 334 (MED) Phebus hymself..May nat belyke the lyght of hir visage. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 25 Reynkyn my yongest sone..belyketh me so wel [Du. ghelijcket mi seer wel] I hope he shal folowe my stappes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). belikev.² Brit. /bᵻˈlʌɪk/, U.S. /bəˈlaɪk/, /biˈlaɪk/ Forms: see be- prefix and like v.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: be- prefix, like v.¹ Etymology: < be- prefix + like v.¹ Compare earlier like v.¹, ylike v. Now archaic. 1. transitive. To like, to be pleased with. †Also intransitive with of (obsolete. rare). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > be pleased with [verb (transitive)] belovec1275 likea1393 agreec1450 pleasea1522 belike1547 1547 C. Langton Very Brefe Treat. Phisick iv. iv. sig. Miii If it [sc. the spittle] be very yelow, tawny, grene, or blacke, or clammy w^t much fome, it is not to be beliked at all. 1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 144^v Such things as I in thee should haue belikte? 1706 N. W. Hist. George a Green xi. 97 To listen withal how he was beloved in those Parts, and his Government beliked of. 1826 T. Flint Francis Berrian I. iv. 121 By those tears, she belikes him. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. iv. xlviii. 142 Sprightly's preachers are so much beliked in the Purchase, that folks are always glad to see them. ?1913 C. W. H. Burns in Maintenance of Lobby to Infl. Legislation IV. 4232 Beliked by all whom he has met, So quiet, unassuming—yet A man once known, none forget, And such is ‘Billy Carson’. 1998 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 16 Oct. d2 Oprah loves Beloved. I only beliked it. 2. transitive. To be pleasing to, to please. Also with non-referential it as subject. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > please or give pleasure [verb] ylikeeOE belovec1225 savoura1300 belike1770 pleasure1937 1770 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer II. ix. 133 Let him, since it belikes him well, Stay where he is. ?1796 H. B. Dudley Passages on Trial Vortigern & Rowena (ed. 2) II. 59 A longe watche in so short a sea, belikes me not! 1850 W. M. Thackeray Let. Oct. (1945) 699 Your Ladyship's honour bade me to the pleasant new drinke of tea which belikes me well. 1877 Tinsleys' Mag. July 65/2 The title beliked him. It might look well on a card one day when custom sanctioned the adoption of the rank given him by these players. 1913 E. Hough Lady & Pirate 182 It belikes me much, fair maid, to disport me at ease this very eve, here on the deck, under the moon, and to hear you..touch the lute. ?1971 A. Davidson Peregrine (2000) iii. 74 The Imperial Fleet hath a writ of its own, a will of its own, and a way of enforcing that will which belikes me not at all. 2000 G. Morris Savage Damsel & Dwarf (2008) vi. 105 ‘A joust, then!’ shouted Sir Persant, ‘if it belikes you, Sir Bowman.’ Derivatives beˈliked adj. (and n.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [adjective] > liked likeda1547 favoured1725 beliked1848 1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Dial Princes (rev. ed.) iv. xi. f. 140 Therfore let not the beelyked thynk, if hee dare beleeue mee, etc. 1848 L. D. H. Zabranhi Heaven upon Earth Pref. 11 England, having long, long ago opened her beliked ring, plays for the belt (offices), and the nation looks uncommonly satisfactorily,..while Mr Tory and Mr Whig..exchange their mighty blows. 1988 Mother Jones July–Aug. 33/1 Charlie Haas..describes himself as the ‘beliked American humorist’. 1994 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 28 Sept. d1 It was a grisly, maniacal crime that has turned into a tense and twisting mystery drama involving probably the most famous and beliked athletic figure in America. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). belikeadv.adj. Brit. /bᵻˈlʌɪk/, U.S. /bəˈlaɪk/, /biˈlaɪk/ Forms: 1500s beelyke, 1500s beleek, 1500s be lyke, 1500s bilike, 1500s bilyke, 1500s byleeke, 1500s by like, 1500s bylyke, 1500s–1600s beelike, 1500s–1600s belyke, 1500s–1600s bylike, 1500s–1600s by lyke, 1500s– belike, 1600s bee-like; also Scottish 1800s bee-like, 1800s be-like. Origin: Probably formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: by prep., like n.¹ Etymology: Probably < by prep. + like n.¹ (compare of (a) like at like n.¹ Phrases 1b, by (the) like at like n.¹ Phrases 1a, and also like adj.). The original sense probably was ‘by what is likely, by what seems’. Compare Old Frisian bilīke (only in the compound alsā bilīke ‘so, for example’).Compare English †beliken and Scots and English regional (Devon; now rare) belikes (adverb), in same sense:1603 H. Clapham Three Partes Salomon Song of Songs Expounded iii. xxxvii. 297 As for the old latine that readeth Bethel (belikes Lamed wanted the head, and so he tooke it for Resh) followed of Pope Sixtus in his edition, I set not onely all Hebrew coppies against that, but also Pope Clement his edition.1715 C. Johnson Country Lasses iv. ii. 66 The young Fellow and he beliken ha had some Words abouten their Sweethearts, and so he shotten,—That's aw.1892 S. Hewett Peasant Speech Devon 46 He's a 'igh-stummicked chap, 'e is; 'e aimeth tü gert thengs, an' belikes 'ell git um, tü. Now archaic, literary, and British regional. A. adv. In all likelihood, probably. Also in weaker sense: perhaps, possibly.See also more belike at more adv. 6b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > [adverb] welleOE lightly1395 likely1395 likinglyc1395 by (also of) likeliheadc1405 by (also of) likelinessc1405 by all (also most) likelihood1427 provably1460 of (all) likelihood1491 belike?1531 like1548 belikelya1551 in (all) likelihood1570 probably1600 by (also in) probabilitya1602 in (also by) all probability1617 presumably1658 prob.1730 nigh hand1848 predictably1914 prolly1922 odds-on1976 ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye i. sig. c7^v Belyke thys man hath droncke of a merye cuppe. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 337^v Harpalus (who by like had a good insight in suche matiers). a1547 J. Redford Wit & Sci. (1951) 3 He hath bethowghte hym dylygenge that way belyke most vsage hath wrowht hym studye ye hold your pease best we here now stay for instruccion. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 73 By like all their ceremonies bee not so auncient. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. xxi. 206 The Pastorells killed in France... These took on them the name and habit of Pastorelli, poore shepherds; in imitation belike..of those in the Gospel. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 156 Will he, so wise, let loose at once his ire, Belike through impotence, or unaware. View more context for this quotation 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 157 In 1572, and belike before, he had a Chamber. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 238 All these three, belike, went together. 1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 11 Belike they had been sent to Bridewell, hadn't a great Gentleman in a blue String come by and releas'd them. a1771 T. Gray Agrippina in Poems (1775) 132 And a call, Like mine, might serve belike to wake pretensions Drowsier than theirs. 1800 W. Wordsworth Pet-lamb in Lyrical Ballads (ed. 2) II. 142 Things that I know not of belike to thee are dear. 1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 111/2 The man was a pompous sort of customer, and told Beard he knew the business as well as he did, better belike. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iv. 268 Caterpillar-like..Become the Painted Peacock, or belike The Brimstone-wing. 1920 M. Beerbohm Laughter in And even Now 316 The roars, belike, would have gradually subsided in dreadful rumblings of more than utterable or conquerable mirth. 1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse I. iii. xxiii. 313 ‘If you'll waft us a wee bit o' a skiff, captain,’ said he, ‘I'll put that in your lug will belike warm your pocket.’ 1980 Times 8 Apr. 12/5 She is flexible, open, vulnerable... Belike; but she is also criminal and a tyrant. 1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 93 Or as Mercury with Venus trails harping about the universe and four phantasmic lights wink toward Jupiter, all belike to handsome music out of the spheres. B. adj. predicatively. Likely. Usually with to do something. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > [adjective] > likely to be or do belike1550 probable1583 in liking1601 like1757 1550 T. Lever Fruitfull Serm. in Shroudes sig. Bv For they seme belyke to do moste good wyth ryches. 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 21^v To the fourme of wordes he hath formed a wrangle, the matter he graunteth belike to be true. 1805 R. Southey Madoc i. iv. 45 They saw..our food belike to fail. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. I. 72/2 ‘That story's no be-like,’ Lanarks. 1898 G. R. Woodward Leg. Saints i. 16 The staff within his hand Such strain no longer well might stand, It was belike to break asunder. 1922 J. G. Smith Wednesday Wife xxiii. 191 Aletra's soul within her became aware that sharp, eager eyes were upon her, that they seemed belike to pierce the covering of her haik. 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† belikev.1

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Derivatives

belikeadv.adj.

† belikev.¹

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