glike

English

Etymology

See gleek (“a jest”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪk

Noun

glike (plural glikes)

1. (obsolete) A sneer; a flout.
   • 1538, John Calvin, The sermons of M. Iohn Caluin vpon the fifth booke of Moses called Deuteronomie faithfully gathered word for word as he preached them in open pulpet; together with a preface of the ministers of the Church of Geneua, and an admonishment made by the deacons there. Also there are annexed two profitable tables, the one containing the chiefe matters; the other the places of Scripture herein alledged., page 624, column 2:

     For when I haue taken on both handes, I will giue him the glike which thought he had won me by his giuing.

   • 1565 [1564], Alexander Nowell, A Reprovfe written by Alexander Nowell of a book entituled "A Provfe of Certayn Articles in Religion denied by M. Iuell, ſet furth by Thomas Dorman, Bachiler of Diuinitie‎^[1], The Preface to the Reader:

     And it is not vnlikely but that M. Dorman with others, vpon vew of D. Hardinges booke, iudgeing that he, as a graue and learned man, had ſufficiently reaſoned againſt vs, but had otherwiſe D. Harding dealte to coldely with vs (as of purpoſe auoidynge glikes , nippes, ſcoffes, bittes, cuttes, and girdes, for ſo himſelfe ſaithe) […]

   • 1587, Philip of Mornay [i.e., Philippe de Mornay], “That mans wiſedome hath acknowledged Gods Prouidence, and bow the ſame wadeth betweene Deſtenie and Fortune.”, in Philip Sidney, Arthur Golding, transl., A Worke Concerning the Trewnesse of Christian Religion, […], London: […] Robert Robinson for I[ohn] B[rome] […], published 1592, →OCLC, page 191:

     A wise man to giue a glike to another wise man, oꝛ a Captaine to beguile a Captaine , oꝛ an enemy to delude his enemy, ciphereth a letter groſſely for the nonce, and ſendeth it ſuch a way as he imagineth that it ſhalbe ſurpꝛiſed..

   • 1589, Leonard Wright, A Summons for Sleepers, pages 21-22:

     Thus when vnder the name of a Sermon, theſe greate builders haue toſſed their fantaſticall doctrine, ſuch as Peter neuer planted, nor Paul neuer watered, befoꝛe the light beleeuing multitude, with ſuch an outward ſhewe of holineſſe, that Lady hypocriſie her ſelfe could not moꝛe fitly handle the matter, ſpitting out their poiſon with cutting girdes, diſdainfull glikes, and pꝛety biting nips, againſt orders establiſhed, Biſhops, Ministers, Magiſtrats and all, ſo far as they dare.

   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 108, column 2:

     Now where’s the Baſtards braues, and Charles his glikes? / What all amort? Roan hangs her head for griefe, / That ſuch a valiant Company are fled.

   • 1594, Charles Gibbon, The Praise of a Good Name, page 16:

     It makes me call to minde that prety aunsweare of that valiant captaine, who béeing imbraided by his base birth, béeing but a Shoomakers sonne) by a noble man borne, yet of bad behauiour, gaue him this glike, my bloud taketh beginning in mée, and thine her farewell at thée: noting thereby that a poore stocke is no reproch to him which is with good manners adorned, when gentry may bee disparaged by some obscene action in the generation.

   • 1813, Joseph Neef, The Method of Instructing Children Rationally in the Arts of Writing and Reading, page 302:

     I have determined not to mind her foolish glike.

   • 1838, Thomas Eagles, Brendallah, A Poem, Whittaker & Co., section LIII, page 108:

     At length he said with something like a glike—
     “The whole affair I know, and soon the axe shall strike […] ”

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “glike”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• klieg