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Likest

Like \Like\ (l[imac]k), a. [Compar. Liker (l[imac]k"[~e]r); superl. Likest.] [OE. lik, ilik, gelic, AS. gel[=i]c, fr. pref. ge- + l[=i]c body, and orig. meaning, having the same body, shape, or appearance, and hence, like; akin to OS. gil[=i]k, D. gelijk, G. gleich, OHG. gil[=i]h, Icel. l[=i]kr, gl[=i]kr, Dan. lig, Sw. lik, Goth. galeiks, OS. lik body, D. lijk, G. leiche, Icel. l[=i]k, Sw. lik, Goth. leik. The English adverbial ending-ly is from the same adjective. Cf. Each, Such, Which.]

  1. Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the particulars of the resemblance; as, they are like each other in features, complexion, and many traits of character.

    'T is as like you As cherry is to cherry.
    --Shak.

    Like master, like man.
    --Old Prov.

    He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.
    --Ps. cxlvii. 16.

    Note: To, which formerly often followed like, is now usually omitted.

  2. Equal, or nearly equal; as, fields of like extent.

    More clergymen were impoverished by the late war than ever in the like space before.
    --Sprat.

  3. Having probability; affording probability; probable; likely.

    Usage: [Likely is more used now.]
    --Shak.

    But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices.
    --South.

    Many were not easy to be governed, nor like to conform themselves to strict rules.
    --Clarendon.

  4. Inclined toward; disposed to; as, to feel like taking a walk.

    Had like (followed by the infinitive), had nearly; came little short of.

    Had like to have been my utter overthrow.
    --Sir W. Raleigh

    Ramona had like to have said the literal truth, . . . but recollected herself in time.
    --Mrs. H. H. Jackson.

    Like figures (Geom.), similar figures.

    Note: Like is used as a suffix, converting nouns into adjectives expressing resemblance to the noun; as, manlike, like a man; childlike, like a child; godlike, like a god, etc. Such compounds are readily formed whenever convenient, and several, as crescentlike, serpentlike, hairlike, etc., are used in this book, although, in some cases, not entered in the vocabulary. Such combinations as bell-like, ball-like, etc., are hyphened.

Wiktionary
likest

  1. (context archaic English) (en-superlative of: like) v

  2. (en-archaic second-person singular of like English)

Usage examples of "likest".

Wherefore the goddess, who was a lover both of war and of wisdom, selected, and first of all settled that spot which was the most likely to produce men likest herself.

But if thou likest not the bargain, there is not another piece of goods for thee in the market, for then I will ride my ways to the Dry Tree, and thou shalt slay the poor youth, or make of him thy sworn friend, like as was Walter--which thou wilt.

I knew that the man whose game it was to have the warrant was the likest man to have grabbed it.

Thou seest the many lovely maidens that there are in this Court, thou shalt have her whom thou best likest for the lady of thy love.

Shippe that he doth meane to shoote at: then if the Shippe bee under the lee side of your Shippe, shoote your peece in the comming downe of the Gayle, and the beginning of the other Ship to rise upon the Sea, as near as you can, for this cause, for when the other shippe is aloft upon the Sea, and shee under your Lee, the Gayle maketh her for to head, and then it is likest to do much good.

It is not without reason that the artists paint the beloved disciple as likest his Lord in features.