LIKEN

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage. Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock. Matt. vii. 24.

2.
v.

To make or cause to be like. [R.] Brougham.


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