scholarlikeadj.adv.

1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Ysco[l]eicol, scholarlyke.

1566 W. Painter tr. O. Landi Delectable Demaundes sig. C.ij^v Those soft and gentle minds, that could not yet wel broke the pain full bruntes of scollerlike customes.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. III. v. iv. sig. Ffff.iij^v/2 We do not meane a childlike and scholerlike examination [L. examen..puerile et scholasticum].

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. D3 They..bad him performe all the Schollerlike ceremonies and disputatiue right appertaining thereto.

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epitome sig. B^v What cannot a smooth tongue, and a schollerlike wit bring to passe?

1659 J. Bunyan Doctr. Law & Grace Unfolded sig. A8^v Reader, if thou do finde this book empty of Fantastical expressions, and without light, vain, whimsical Scholar-like terms, thou must understand, it is because I never went to School to Aristotle or Plato.

1672 J. Dryden Def. Epilogue in Conquest Granada 172 Truewit was a Scholar-like kind of man.

1734 A. A. Sykes 2nd Def. Diss. Phlegon 6 I shall always acknowledge the schollarlike manner in which they have both wrote.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. iv. 44 It is impracticable to comprehend many rules of the modern law, in a scholarlike scientifical manner, without having recourse to the antient.

1828 J. Baillie Let. 9 June in M. Berry Extracts Jrnls. & Corr. (1865) III. 371 The style is clear and scholar-like.

1858 J. L. Motley Let. 28 May in Corr. (1889) I. viii. 227 Stirling..is mild, amiable, bald-headed, scholarlike.

1862 F. M. Müller in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 387 He set to work in a more scholarlike spirit.

1921 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Jan. 41/1 He is scholarlike and precise.

1961 Slavonic & East European Rev. 40 212 He thought that English readers might take a mildly scholarlike pleasure in tracing the influence of Byron on Pushkin's poetry.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Bj^v Euery mans wit can geue lightly a reason of diuers thinges..& yet not be able to set the same in order Scholerlike, either to proue or to confute.

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epitome sig. B^v Wherein he hath behaued himselfe verye scholerlike.

1627 Abp. G. Abbot in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 441 I pray you tell his Majesty that I am dealt with neither Manly nor Scholar-like.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 313 The cause for the defence of Plays was very wittily and Scholarlike maintained between the said two Doctors for some time.

1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner To Rdrs. sig. Aa2^v Thus very rudely, I obtrude vnto thee not a banquet, but a byt rather of each dish Scholler-likely, that is, badly carued. For Schollers are bad Caruers.