likest
English
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Verb
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- (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of like
Adjective
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- (archaic) superlative form of like: most like
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 500:
- Like neuer yet did liuing eie detect; / But likeſt it to an Hyena was, / That feeds on wemens flesh, as others feede on gras.
- 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 40:
- Then forthwith to him takes a choſen band / Of Spirits likeſt to himſelf in guile / To be at hand, and at his beck appear, […].
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
- Surely, estates be then best, when they are likest minds that be worst: I mean, neither hot, nor cold: neither distended with too much, nor narrowly pent […]
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