Crossword clues for belike
belike
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belike \Be*like"\, adv. [Pref. be- (for by) + like.] It is likely or probably; perhaps. [Obs. or Archaic] -- Be*like"ly, adv.
Belike, boy, then you are in love.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make like; simulate. 2 (context transitive English) To be like; resemble. Etymology 2
n. An object of affection or liking. vb. 1 (context impersonal English) To be pleasing to; please. 2 (context transitive English) To like; be pleased with. Etymology 3
adv. (context archaic or dialectal Northern England English) likely, probably, perhaps.
WordNet
adv. with considerable certainty; without much doubt; "He is probably out of the country"; "in all likelihood we are headed for war" [syn: probably, likely, in all likelihood, in all probability]
Usage examples of "belike".
Or, belike, when they feel like a bit of amorous libration, they can do it perfectly well in their own persons without employing mortals as surrogates.
Demonland abode with Queen Sophonisba in Koshtra Belorn and beside the Lake of Ravary tasting such high and pure delights as belike none else hath tasted, if it were not the spirits of the blest in Elysium.
To-morrow belike the King will hunt in Wychwood, and kill a yeld hind.
Belike, if truth were told, thou and thy lord are all the true friends I have in waterish Witchland: you two, and the King: but who sleepeth safe in the favour of kings?
Belike he felt his Jutish blood speak to him, though blood-ties should never count above loyalty to a chieftain.
Your backs were not turned on the walls of the Burg an hour, ere three of my riders brought in to me a man who said, and gave me tokens of his word being true, that he had fallen in with a company of the old Burgers in the Wood Debateable, which belike thou wottest of.
Therefore now meseemeth that not many of us shall see the cities of the South, and those few belike shall look on their own shackles therewithal.
Aye, belike it was, lady, for she bestowed on him a strange jewel, a heart in heart of crystal, that wrought for us in Canalise marvels great as our wondrous Witch herself.
She’s the michtiest witch in Christendie or heathendom, and could belike match hersel’ wi’ aught in the Middle World.
Therefore, sweetheart, if thou fearest that the King should punish thee for so wounding the poor Christopher of those few days ago, as belike thou deservest it, bid the King do off his raiment, and do thou in likewise, and then there shall be no King to punish, and no King's scather to thole the punishment, but only Christopher and Goldilind, even as they met erewhile on the dewy grass of Littledale.
And this is more to be noted, that when one of late fell by God's providence into a troubled conscience, after he had considered well of his reachless life and dangerous estate, another, thinking belike to change his colour and not his mind, carried him straight away to the strongest ale, as to the next physician.