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▪ I. vice-like, a.1 rare—1.
[f. vice n.1 1.]
Partaking of the nature of vice.
1590Nashe Martin Marprelate Wks. (Grosart) I. 184 Beeing once entered into the vicelike vaine of foolerie,..I was caried most wickedlie..in a scorne against the Saincts of God.
▪ II. vice-like, a.2
Also U.S. vise-like.
[f. vice n.2 5.]
Resembling (that of) a vice; firmly tenacious or compressive.
1835E. A. Poe in Southern Lit. Messenger June 570/1 Clutching with a vice-like grip the long-desired rim. 1845Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 127 Traitors! that vice-like fang the hand ye lick. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Lit. Wks. (Bohn) II. 104 What he relishes in Dante is the vice⁓like tenacity with which he holds a mental image before the eyes. 1890D. Davidson Mem. Long Life x. 258 [He] seized my hand in his vice-like fist. |