Meaning of glike | Babel Free

Definitions

A sneer; a flout.

obsolete

Examples

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

“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) […]”

“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..”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I have determined not to mind her foolish glike.”

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

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