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liking
(mass) | liking
- záľuba |
liking
(encz) | liking,záliba n: [obec.] ~ for something = záliba v něco, záliba pro
něco mamm |
Liking
(gcide) | Like \Like\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liked (l[imac]kt); p. pr. &
vb. n. Liking.] [OE. liken to please, AS. l[imac]cian,
gel[imac]cian, fr. gel[imac]c. See Like, a.]
1. To suit; to please; to be agreeable to. [Obs.]
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Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there.
--R. of
Gloucester.
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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.
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2. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to
take satisfaction in; to enjoy.
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He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking
to loving. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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3. To liken; to compare. [Obs.]
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Like me to the peasant boys of France. --Shak.
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Liking
(gcide) | Liking \Lik"ing\ (l[imac]k"[i^]ng), p. a.
Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like,
to look. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Why should he see your faces worse liking than the
children which are of your sort? --Dan. i. 10.
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Liking
(gcide) | Liking \Lik"ing\, n.
1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking,
below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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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.
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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.
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3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or
condition. [Archaic]
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I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I
have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
--Shak.
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Their young ones are in good liking. --Job. xxxix.
4.
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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.]
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Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line
. . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance?
--Hazlitt.
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liking
(wn) | liking
n 1: 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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liking
(mass) | liking
- záľuba |
disliking
(encz) | disliking,averze n: Zdeněk Brož |
liking
(encz) | liking,záliba n: [obec.] ~ for something = záliba v něco, záliba pro
něco mamm |
Disliking
(gcide) | Dislike \Dis*like"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disliked; p. pr. &
vb. n. Disliking.]
1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to
disrelish.
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Every nation dislikes an impost. --Johnson.
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2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking
countenance." --Marston. "It dislikes me." --Shak.
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Misliking
(gcide) | Mislike \Mis*like"\ (m[i^]s*l[imac]k"), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
Misliked (m[i^]s*l[imac]kt"); p. pr. & vb. n. Misliking.]
[AS. misl[imac]cian to displease. See Like, v.]
To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to; as, to
mislike a man.
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Who may like or mislike what he says. --I. Taylor.
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Dislike; aversion.
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On liking
(gcide) | Liking \Lik"ing\, n.
1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking,
below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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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.
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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.
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3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or
condition. [Archaic]
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I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I
have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
--Shak.
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Their young ones are in good liking. --Job. xxxix.
4.
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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.]
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Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line
. . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance?
--Hazlitt.
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Well-liking
(gcide) | Well-liking \Well"-lik`ing\, a.
Being in good condition. [Obs. or Archaic]
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They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age,
and shall be fat and well-liking. --Bk. of Com.
Prayer (Ps.
xcii.).
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liking
(wn) | liking
n 1: 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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