belike
/bɪˈlʌɪk
/adverb [sentence adverb] archaic
In all likelihood; probably: some earnest business is afoot belike...
- The roars, belike, would have gradually subsided in dreadful rumblings of more than utterable or conquerable mirth.
- Belike they were not known, or else not used.
- And thy wife, belike, or thy mother, reared her?
Origin
Mid 16th century: from by + like1.
- trade language
- trade-last
- tradeless
- trademark
- trademark dilution
- trademark infringement
- trade mission
- trade name
- tradent
- tradeocracy
- trade-off
- trade officer
- trade on
- trade paper
- trade paperback
- trade places
- trade plates
- trade practice submittal
- trade price
- trader
- trade-related
- trade road
- multimegabit
- multimegaton
- multimegawatt