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life-like, lifelike, a.|ˈlaɪflaɪk|
1. Likely to live. Only in phr. Cf. alive-like.
1613J. Day Diall (1614) 321 But what neede we take so long a Day as to see what they will say on their Death⁓beds, we shall heare some of them confesse it somewhat sooner, even while they are aliue, and liue-like. 1881C. M. Yonge Lads & Lasses Langley ii. 96 Here, mother..I'm living and lifelike, thank God.
2. Like or resembling life; exactly like a living original or something in real life.
1725Pope Odyss. iv. 1047 Minerva, life-like on embody'd air, Impressed the form of Iphthima the fair. 1836H. Rogers J. Howe i. (1863) 15 The life-like forms of the painter or the sculptor. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 188 As we read this lifelike fiction.
3. as adv. With animation or liveliness.
1839Bailey Festus xx. (1848) 237 He went Life-like through all things.
Hence ˈlifelikeness.
1857Gladstone in Oxford Ess. 10 This freshness and genuineness, this life-likeness, are almost wholly wanting. 1862R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 87 In all the distinctness of objective reality—with all the life-likeness of flesh and blood. 1884Swinburne in 19th Cent. May 788 The piteous and perfect lifelikeness of these magnificent lines every heart..may recognize. |
