disliken

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dis- +‎ liken

Verb[edit]

disliken (third-person singular simple present dislikens, present participle dislikening, simple past and past participle dislikened)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make unlike; to disguise.
    • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
      Dismantle you , and as you can , disliken <br?The truth of your own seeming , that you may

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 disliken”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)