单词 | to liken together |
释义 | > as lemmasto liken together a. transitive. To regard or represent as similar to; to compare. Also with †into, unto, with, and in to liken together. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (transitive)] > liken bysenc1325 anliken1340 comparison1340 liken1340 figure1393 like?c1425 semblea1440 compare1447 comparagea1450 signifya1470 comparate?a1475 figurate?a1500 resemble1533 patterna1586 symbolize with1605 assimilatec1616 similize1620 symbolize1651 similarize1806 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 234 No þing ne is worþi to be ylykned to þe chaste herte. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 4756 And to þe croys by gode skylle Ys þe harpe lykened weyle. c1450 (?a1349) in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 22 (MED) Loue y likne in-to a fier Þat slakeen may for no þing. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 3095 (MED) It limps noȝt all-way þe last to licken with þe first. a1475 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 231 I leccone my lyfe vnto the morrow-tyde. 1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. A.iiiiv Wel may the preacher and the ploughman be lykened together. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 626 Of all the Græcain Captaines I can liken none so well vnto him, as Eumenes the Cardian. For both of them knew how to commaund, both were very valliant & politicke in warres, both were banished men out of their contry. 1604 H. Jacob Reasons 14 These things can not be compared nor likened togeather. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. i. 92 The Prince broke thy head for lik'ning [1600 liking] him to a singing man of Windsor. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 573 By lik'ning spiritual to corporal forms. View more context for this quotation 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. ii. 26 Every good servant, for the future, will be proud to be liken'd to honest Joseph Leman. 1751 J. Harris Hermes i. vii. 106 The World has been likened to a variety of Things. 1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 90 You liken her to Henry. 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. i. 9 I likened him often..to sheet-lightning. 1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 93 You must not liken her To your wild-eyed Aspasias. a1938 T. Wolfe You can't go Home Again (1973) iii. xxiv. 273 I have been likened..to a viper that an innocent populace had long nurtured in its bosom. 1976 N. Denny tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables (2003) ii. viii. iii. 464 Some carry blasphemy to the point of likening the scaffold of Louis XVI to the Cross of Jesus Christ. 2003 A. Swofford Jarhead 134 Some shooters might liken the trigger to a clitoris,..but in STA 2/7 we refrain from anthropomorphizing our weapons. < as lemmas |
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