Belike vs Pelike - What's the difference?
belike | pelike |
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 nouns the difference between belike and pelike
is that belike is an object of affection or liking while pelike is a ceramic container of Ancient Greece, similar to an amphora.As a verb belike
is to make like; simulate.As an adverb belike
is 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.}}