like of

English

Verb

like of (third-person singular simple present likes of, present participle liking of, simple past and past participle liked of)

  1. (obsolete) To be pleased with.
    • c. 1621–6, Philip Massinger, “The Unnatural Combat”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger‎, published 1845, act 3, scene 1, page 44:
      He ne'er observed / To twirl a dish about, you did not like of, / All being pleasing to you;

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “like of”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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