a. and adv. Obs. [f. as prec. + -LIKE.]
A. adj. Like a fellow.
a. Like a companion or mate; on a level; on the same footing; similar. Const. with.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 63 b. To … make hym equall or felowe lyke, with kynges.
1596. Bp. W. Barlow, Three Serm., i. 16. These two are such felowlike companions.
b. Companionable, sociable; sympathetic.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, A fellowelike man.
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 79–80. Hee ioyned himselfe, namely in fellowship and fellowlike communion with him, not as unto his Lord and Prince, doth lop down all that height of the Bishop of Rome, wherewith hee shutteth up, aboue his fellow Bishops.
a. 1633. Lennard, trans. Charron’s Wisd., I. xxxii. We sigh with those that are afflicted, and with a fellow-like feeling pity their miseries.
B. adv. a. Like one’s fellows, on the same footing or level; in like manner, similarly.
c. 1530. Ld. Berners, Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814), 113. He was named felawlyke to Bucyfal, the horse of Alexander the Greate.
a. 1569. Kingsmill, A Conference conteyning a Conflict had with Satan (1578), 36. Hee is a felowe captive with Paul, and shall be felowelike ransomed with Paul.
b. Like a fellow, companion, or equal; sociably.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 399.
| He did to beasts best use his cunning frame; | |
| With water drinke, hearbs meat, and naked hide: | |
| And fellow-like let his dominion slide. |
1609. Bible (Douay), Ecclus. xiii. 14. Stay not to speake felowlike with him.
a. 1628. F. Greville, Sidney (1652), 24. His Company about him, the Burgesses of that beer-brewing Town: and he so fellow-like encompassed with them, as (had I not known his face) no exterior sign of degree, or deservedness could have discovered the inequality of his worth or Estate from that multitude.
1678. in Littleton, Lat. Dict.
c. ? Like a ‘fellow’ or person of little worth.
1632. Sanderson, Serm. (1637), 611. Servants … that will work hard … so long as their master’s eye is upon them, but when his back is turned can be content to goe on fayre and softly and fellow-like.
