Lik"ing , n.
1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below. [Obs.
or Prov. Eng.]
2. The state of
being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; --
often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement I have no liking for.
If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support.
Bacon. 3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or
condition. [Archaic]
I shall think the worse of
fat men, as
long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
Shak.
Their young ones are in good liking.
Job. xxxix. 4. On
liking, on condition of being pleasing to or suiting; also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking. [Obs. or Prov.
Eng.]
Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal
line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance ?
Hazlitt.
Lik"ing (līk"&ibreve;ng), p. a. Looking;
appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Why should he see your
faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort ?
Dan. i. 10.
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