Belike vs Belie - What's the difference?
belike | belie |
To make like; simulate.
To be like; resemble.
* 2000 , Helen May Dennis, Ezra Pound and poetic influence :
(impersonal) To be pleasing to; please.
* 1903 , The story of King Arthur and his knights:
To like; be pleased with.
(archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England) Likely, probably, perhaps.
*, III.1.2.iii:
*:For that reason, belike , Homer feigns the three Graces to be linked and tied hand in hand, because the hearts of men are so firmly united with such graces.
*1904 , Chesterton,
*:And when the pedants bade us mark / What cold mechanic happenings / Must come; our souls said in the dark, / "Belike ; but there are likelier things."
* {{quote-book, year=1991, author=Roger Zelazny & Robert Sheckley
, title= (obsolete) To lie around; encompass.
(transitive, obsolete, of an army) To surround; beleaguer.
To tell lies about; to slander.
* Shakespeare
To give a false representation of, to misrepresent.
* Shakespeare
*, II.2.6.iv:
To contradict, to show (something) to be false.
* Dryden
To be shown false by contradicting (something) that is true; to conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something).
* 2013 , Elizabeth Koh, "Fighting Pest, Farmers Find Strange Ally: A Drought,"
To show, evince, demonstrate: to show (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic.
* 1993 , Carol A. Mossman, Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-41586-6,
(obsolete) To mimic; to counterfeit.
(obsolete) To fill with lies.
* Shakespeare
In lang=en terms the difference between belike and belie
is that belike is to like; be pleased with while belie is to contradict, to show (something) to be false.As verbs the difference between belike and belie
is that belike is to make like; simulate or belike can be (impersonal) to be pleasing to; please while belie is (obsolete) to lie around; encompass or belie can be to tell lies about; to slander.As a noun belike
is an object of affection or liking.As an adverb belike
is (archaic|or|dialectal|northern england) likely, probably, perhaps.belike
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(belik)- The most beautiful passages of Arnaut are in the canzo beginning: Sweet cries and cracks and lays and chants inflected By auzels who, in their Latin belikes .
Etymology 2
From .Verb
(belik)- Yea," said King Arthur, " it belikes me more than any horse that I ever beheld before." " Then," quoth Queen Morgana, "consider it as a gift of reconciliation betwixt thee and me. [...]"
Derived terms
*Etymology 3
From .Adverb
(-)Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming, publisher=Bantam Books, New York, page=205 , passage=Princess Scarlet fanned herself with the Chinese fan that Supply had provided and, turning to Achmed Ali, said in formal tones, "Belike , sir, I've not seen thy match for overall all-in dancing eftsoons.}}
belie
English
Alternative forms
*Etymology 1
From (etyl) belyen, beliggen, from (etyl) belicgan, . Cognate with German beliegen.Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) belyen, .Verb
- Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him.
- Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts.
- He found it by experience, and made good use of it in his own person, if Plutarch belie him not […].
- Their trembling hearts belie their boastful tongues.
- Her obvious nervousness belied what she said.
New York Times, August 31, 2013
- The rosy outlook belies a struggle to achieve statewide eradication that has persisted since the insect first crossed the border from Mexico around 1892.
- His calm demeanor belied his inner sense of guilt.
page 28:
- A host of evidence is adduced by the accused, evidence whose sometimes self-contradictory nature belies a certain desperation.
- (Dryden)
- The breath of slander doth belie all corners of the world.
