Crossword clues for likened
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liken \Lik"en\ (l[imac]k"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Likened (l[imac]k"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Likening.] [OE. liknen. See Like, a.]
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To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.
Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock.
--Matt. vii. 24. To make or cause to be like. [R.]
--Brougham.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: liken)
Usage examples of "likened".
The mark they thus leave on the whale, may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in countersinking for a screw.
It will also be perceived that the ground on which servants and depositaries have been often likened to each other, namely, that they both hold for the benefit of another and not for themselves, is wholly without influence on our law, which has always treated depositaries as having possession.
For there King Arthur likened Sir Tristram that was on the black horse like to a wood lion, and likened Sir Palomides upon the white horse unto a wood leopard, and Sir Gareth and Sir Dinadan unto eager wolves.
And why the voice called thee bitterer than wood, for where overmuch sin dwelleth, there may be but little sweetness, wherefore thou art likened to an old rotten tree.
Then she rebuked that lady that likened Sir Launcelot to ride in a chariot to hanging.
It was foul mouthed, said the queen, and evil likened, so for to liken the most noble knight of the world unto such a shameful death.
Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker’s last.
It receives its designation (pitchpoling) from its being likened to that preliminary up-and-down poise of the whale-lance, in the exercise called pitchpoling, previously described.
But one half of it, that a guest at a tavern has not possession of the plate with which he is served, is no doubt still law, [227] for guests in general are likened to servants in their legal position.
The meaning seems equally clear when we say that a free servant, in his relations as such, is in many respects likened by the law to a slave (not, of course, to his own detriment as a freeman).
From it there emanated a faint something that could be likened to a distant smile.
With her growing knack at metaphors she likened it to a caterpillar attempting to move a tree.
Those primitives hardly ever engaged in anything that could be likened to mutual grooming completely nonsexual scratching, combing, massaging one another, just for the pleasure of contact, with no sex involved at all.
Wallace likened the noise to that of a succession of bombs being dropped by B-52s.
The wanted fugitive, who had fired no shots, likened the arrest to an assassination attempt.