different between belive vs belike

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?l?v'
• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??la?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??la?v/

  Rhymes: -a?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English beliven, from Old English bel?fan (“to remain”), from Proto-Germanic *bil?ban? (“to remain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”). Cognate with West Frisian bliuwe (“to stay”), Dutch blijven (“to remain”), German bleiben (“to remain”), Danish blive (“to be, remain”). More at leave.

Alternative forms

• bilive, blive
• bleve, bileve, bilave, blewe

Verb

belive (third-person singular simple present belives, present participle beliving, simple past belove, past participle beliven)

1. (intransitive, obsolete outside dialects) To remain, stay.
   • 1843 (original date: 1475), Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt, The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer - Page 321:

     [...] God helpe me so, the best is thus to done. “Rise, let us speake of lustie life in Troy That we have lad, and forth the time drive, And eke of time coming us rejoy, That bringen shall our blisse now to blive, [...]"

   • 1900 (original date: 1483), Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints:

     So there bleveth no more, but I that am servant to the spirit, may lie down and die. In which death I glorify myself, but I am greatly troubled in my mind, that my riches which I had ordained to God be wasted and spent in foul things.

Related terms

• belave (2)
• beleave

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English belive, bilife (“actively", literally, "by life”). More at by, life.

Alternative forms

• blive

Adverb

belive (comparative more belive, superlative most belive)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland) Quickly, forthwith.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.v:

     By that same way the direfull dames doe driue / Their mournefull charet, fild with rusty blood, / And downe to Plutoes house are come biliue [...].

2. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Soon, presently, before long; by and by; anon

Anagrams

• b'lieve, beveil, bevile

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English beliken (“to simulate, feign”), equivalent to be- +? like.

Verb

belike (third-person singular simple present belikes, present participle beliking, simple past and past participle beliked)

1. (transitive) To make like; simulate.
2. (transitive) To be like; resemble.

Etymology 2

From be- +? like.

Verb

belike (third-person singular simple present belikes, present participle beliking, simple past and past participle beliked)

1. (impersonal) To be pleasing to; please.
   • 1903, The story of King Arthur and his knights:

     Yea," said King Arthur, " it belikes me more than any horse that I ever beheld before." " Then," quoth Queen Morgana, "consider it as a gift of reconciliation betwixt thee and me. [...]"

2. (transitive) To like; be pleased with.

Derived terms

• beliked

Noun

belike (plural belikes)

1. An object of affection or liking.

   She will always be one of my belikes.

Etymology 3

From be- +? like.

Adverb

belike (not comparable)

1. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England) Likely, probably, perhaps, haply.
   • c. 1589-93, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV scene iv^[1]:

     It seems, you lov'd not her, to leave her token: / She's dead, belike.

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 558:

     Upon this he brought me a cotton bag and giving it to me, said, "Take this bag and fill it with pebbles from the beach and go forth with a company of the townsfolk to whom I will give a charge respecting thee. Do as they do and belike thou shalt gain what may further thy return voyage to thy native land."

   • 1904, G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill

     And when the pedants bade us mark / What cold mechanic happenings / Must come; our souls said in the dark, / "Belike; but there are likelier things."

Derived terms

• belikely

Anagrams

• Beilke