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