Hypertext Webster Gateway: "liking"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Like \Like\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Liked} (l[imac]kt); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Liking}.] [OE. liken to please, AS. l[=i]cian,
gel[=i]cian, fr. gel[=i]c. See {Like}, a.]
1. To suit; to please; to be agreeable to. [Obs.]

Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there.
--R. of
Gloucester.

I willingly confess that it likes me much better
when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am
bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature. --Sir
P. Sidney.

2. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to
take satisfaction in; to enjoy.

He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking
to loving. --Sir P.
Sidney.

3. To liken; to compare.[Obs.]

Like me to the peasant boys of France. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Liking \Lik"ing\ (l[imac]k"[i^]ng), p. a.
Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See {Like},
to look. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Why should he see your faces worse liking than the
children which are of your sort ? --Dan. i. 10.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

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

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

liking
n : a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a
liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin"
[ant: {dislike}]


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