a. and adv. [f. KING sb. + -LIKE.] A. adj. Resembling a king; characteristic of, or befitting, a king; kingly; regal.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., IV. xix. (1634), 726, marg. Rasure of the crowne [is] ministred in token of spiritual Kinglike dignitie.
1636. Massinger, Bashf. Lover, III. iii. ’Tis truly noble, having power to punish,—Nay, kinglike—to forbear it.
1661. Gauden, in Birch, Milton’s Wks. (1738), I. 67. What was done like a King, should have a Kinglike Retribution.
B. adv. Like, or in a manner befitting, a king.
1884. Tennyson, Becket, IV. ii. He … kinglike fought the proud archbishop,—kinglike Defied the Pope.
