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ˈlion-like, a. (adv.)
a. adj. Resembling a lion or what pertains to a lion.
1556J. Heywood Spider & F. xci. 122 This lionlike spider: erst feerce as could be. 1611Bible 1 Chron. xi. 22 He slue two Lyon-like men of Moab. 1747T. Smith Jrnl. (1849) 270 There has been no high winds this month [March]—no lion-like days. 1829Scott Rob Roy Introd. App. v, The lion-like mode of wooing practised by the ancient Highlanders. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 51 His [Achilles'] lion-like fury of sorrow for Patroclus.
b. adv.
1610Niccols Ed. Ironside lxix. Mirr. Mag. 600 The anguish arm'd our armes with strength to strike, And made vs both incounter lion-like. 1670Dryden 1st Pt. Conq. Granada iii. i, But, lion-like, has been in deserts bred. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. ii. xiv. (1872) I. 131 Ritterdom fought lionlike, but with insufficient strategic and other wisdom. |