† ˈself-like, a. and adv. Obs.
[In A. 1, f. self a. + like a.; cf. selfsame; in A. 2 and B., f. self n. + like.]
A. adj.
1. ‘Very like’, similar, of the selfsame kind.
| 1556 Aurelio & Isab. G 3 You men be of the same selfe lyke qualite. a 1586 Sidney Arcadia i. Ecl. i. (1622) 95 Till Strephons plaining voice him nearer drew, Where by his words his selfe-like case he knew. 1594 H. Willobie Avisa 19, I little thought to find you so:..Such selfe like wench I neuer met. 1596 Lodge Marg. Amer. 114 This other in the selfe like passion, but with more government, he wrote. |
2. Like oneself.
| 1606 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iv. Decay 1143 And so God bless your lawfull-loved womb With Self-like Babes [orig. enfans pareils à vous]. 1621 G. Sandys Ovid's Met. i. (1626) 6 His selfe-like jawes still grin [orig. ab ipso colligit os rabiem]. |
B. adv. Even; = selfly adv. 1 a.
| 1556 Aurelio & Isab. H 7 In tyme & in place where they be not requiered, selfe lyke in the presence of so grete a Kinge & Quene. |