What is "liken"

Usage examples of "liken".

A foreign simile would be to liken Basho to a pearl, and Buson to a diamond.

As the evening deepened the quaintest noises began on every hand--noises so strange and bewildering that as I cowered down with my teeth chattering, and stared hard into the impenetrable, they could be likened to nothing but the crying of all the souls of dead things since the beginning.

Ambassador Diol likened their situation to the planet Bajor after the Cardassian withdrawal, an opinion with which the Federation Council agrees.

I likened the parish to a widow woman with a small family, sitting in her cottage by the fireside, herself spinning with an eident wheel, ettling her best to get them a bit and a brat, and the poor weans all canty about the hearthstane--the little ones at their playocks, and the elder at their tasks--the callans working with hooks and lines to catch them a meal of fish in the morning-- and the lassies working stockings to sell at the next Marymas fair.

Virgin so as not to tear her gossamery maidenhead, the frangibility of which was likened by Thomas the Rhymer unto that of crisp silk, and whose rupture would have detheologized the Western World, catastrophically orphaning us all.

In taking off the haori, the brilliant lining is displayed,-- and at such an instant the fluttering splendor might well be likened to the appearance of a butterfly in motion.

In Eastern mythology the Kundalini is likened to the image of a serpent coiled up below the base of the spine.

Rather than a single large, sod-covered, semisubterranean longhouse that Ayla had likened to a cave or even a human-sized burrow, in this Camp several individual round lodges were clustered together on the terrace.

The pakeha are not well pleased by these events and liken it to treason.

Covent Garden or Holborn school for thieves, and that likening him to a sneaksman was not so very off the mark.

I should liken her to Diana emerged from the tutorship of Master Endymion, and at nice play among the gods.

And I think I would have continued aimlessly walking, noting, talking and watching if I had not one night woken up beside Katharine and heard in the room and in my mind a silence so profound that it is beyond words to describe because I cannot liken it to anything on the earth.

Whereas, the physiognomy of Prince Yeddo could be likened to a brownish coconut, decorated with narrow eyes, a sharp-etched nose, and lips that looked like a painted line.

Now man is likened to the splendor of the Eternal Son by reason of the light of grace which is attributed to the Holy Ghost.

This similitude, likening the universe to a clock, and God to a horologist, is faulty.