Liken
['laɪk(ə)n] or ['laɪkən]
Definition
(a.) To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.
(a.) To make or cause to be like.
Checker: Reginald
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Compare, show the resemblance of.
Checker: Noelle
Examples
- The discoveries of Ampère as to the laws of electricity have been likened to the discovery of Newton of the law of gravitation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- At first I likened it to a colony, which borne over the far seas, struck root for the first time in a new country. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Perhaps it was so likened by the lonely Bargeman, standing on the brink of the lock. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Reflect: is not the dreamer, sleeping or waking, one who likens dissimilar things, who puts the copy in the place of the real object? Plato. The Republic.
Edited by Constantine