a. (adv.) a. adj. Resembling a lion or what pertains to a lion.
1556. J. Heywood, Spider & F., xci. 122. This lionlike spider: erst feerce as could be.
1611. Bible, 1 Chron. xi. 22. He slue two Lyon-like men of Moab.
1747. T. Smith, Jrnl. (1849), 270. There has been no high winds this month [March]—no lion-like days.
1829. Scott, Rob Roy, Introd. App. v. The lion-like mode of wooing practised by the ancient Highlanders.
a. 1849. H. Coleridge, Ess. (1851), II. 51. His [Achilles’] lion-like fury of sorrow for Patroclus.
b. adv.
1610. Niccols, Ed. Ironside, lxix. Mirr. Mag., 600. The anguish arm’d our armes with strength to strike, And made vs both incounter lion-like.
1670. Dryden, 1st Pt. Conq. Granada, III. i. But, lion-like, has been in deserts bred.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., II. xiv. (1872), I. 131. Ritterdom fought lionlike, but with insufficient strategic and other wisdom.
