like as

See also: likeas and likeás

English

Etymology

See like.

Conjunction

like as

1. (archaic) Just as; in the same way as; even as.
   • 1611, Bible, Job 5.26:

     Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

Usage notes

The forms like as if and like as and are sometimes found. The former is rare; the latter obsolete.

• 1799, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letters, published 1895, section 272:

  I held the letter in my hand like as if I was stupid.

• 1523, John Fitzherbert, The Boke of Surveying, section 13.31:

  Lyke as and it were extortion.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “like as”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Lieksa, alkies, alsike, askile