What is "on liking"

Liking \Lik"ing\, n.

1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

2. The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement I have no liking for.

   If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support.
   --Bacon.

3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition. [Archaic]

   I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
   --Shak.

   Their young ones are in good liking.
   --Job. xxxix.

4. On liking, on condition of being pleasing to or suiting; also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking.

   Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance?
   --Hazlitt.