Belive vs Belike - What's the difference?
belive | belike |
(intransitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To remain, stay.
* 1900' (original date: '''1483 ), Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, ''The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints :
(intransitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To abide, continue.
(obsolete, outside, Scotland) Quickly, forthwith.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.v:
Soon, presently, before long; by and by; anon
English words prefixed with be-
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."
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As verbs the difference between belive and belike
is that belive is (intransitive|obsolete|outside|dialects) to remain, stay while belike is to make like; simulate or belike can be (impersonal) to be pleasing to; please.As adverbs the difference between belive and belike
is that belive is (obsolete|outside|scotland) quickly, forthwith while belike is (archaic|or|dialectal|northern england) likely, probably, perhaps.As a noun belike is
an object of affection or liking.belive
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) beliven, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* *Verb
- So there bleveth no more, but I that am servant to the spirit, may lie down and die. In which death I glorify myself, but I am greatly troubled in my mind, that my riches which I had ordained to God be wasted and spent in foul things.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) belive, .Alternative forms
*Adverb
(en adverb)- By that same way the direfull dames doe driue / Their mournefull charet, fild with rusty blood, / And downe to Plutoes house are come biliue [...].
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.}}