adv. Obs. exc. dial. Also 5 everelike, -yllyke, -ylyche. [f. EVER + ELIKE, though probably looked upon as = EVERY + LIKE.] Ever in like fashion; continually; in later dialectal use, from time to time; at intervals.

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a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 340. Þe ious out he wrengis, Erne till exorzise & ethis euer elike. Ibid., 727 (Dublin MS.). That oþer wy for hys werkez wepys eueryllyke.

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c. 1420.  Chron. Vilod., 2164. Ȝet almys-dede and fastyng he dude everylyche continuelle.

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1855.  Robinson, Whitby Gloss., s.v., They kept playing the music every like.

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