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deathlike, a.|ˈdɛθlaɪk| [f. death n. + -like; formed after the OE. déaþ-líc had become deathly.] †1. Deadly, fatal, mortal; = deathly 2. Obs.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John 77 b, The sickenes was not deathlyke. 1608Shakes. Per. i. i. 29 Death-like dragons here affright thee hard. 1621Lady Mary Wroth Urania 418 Most cruell, and the death-lik'st kind of ill. 2. Resembling death.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. Vocation 616 A deep and death-like Letharge. 1795Southey Joan of Arc iv. 435 A death-like paleness. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. i. (1858) 14 The deathlike silence of a region where the fall of waters..is unknown. |