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princelike, a. (adv.)|ˈprɪnslaɪk|
[f. prince n. + -like.]
A. adj. Like or resembling a prince; characteristic of or suitable to a prince; princely, royal.
1532G. Hervet Xenophon's Househ. (1768) 56 He that can make them maisters, can make them princelyke, and able to be kinges. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 33 They interteined their gestes after a barbaros and beastly maner, which..semed to them princelike. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 434 b, Crafts and policies, neither commendable nor princelike. 1625Bacon Char. Jas. I in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 158 Your Majestie's manner of Speech is indeed Prince-like. 1726Pope Odyss. xvii. 498 Thou dost not seem the worst Of all the Greeks, but Prince-like and the first. 1826Scott Woodst. ii, I have outlived the kindest and most princelike of masters.
†B. adv. In a princely manner; like a prince.
1567Drant Horace Epist. xix. F vij, I euer set my fote⁓stepps fre princelike where none had gone. 1660–1Pepys Diary 12 Jan., I went home with Mr. Davis, storekeeper..and was there most prince-like lodged. 1859Tennyson Geraint & Enid 545 Thro' these Princelike his bearing shone. |