a. and pron. [f. SUCH a. + LIKE a. Cf. SIC-LIKE, SWILK-LIKE.]
A. adj. Of such a kind; of the like or a similar kind; of the before-mentioned sort or character.
1422. Yonge, trans. Secreta Secret., 239. Suche-like dyuersite may a man fynde in dyuerses stomakis.
1526. Tindale, Mark vii. 8. Many other suche lyke thinges ye do.
a. 1557. Mrs. M. Basset, trans. More’s Treat. Pass., Wks. 1357/1. Hunger, thyrste, slepe, werines, & such like disposicions.
c. 1610. Women Saints, 160. As for paynted face, or colouring of eyes, and such like brickle brauerie.
1660. Fuller, Mixt Contemp. (1841), 177. An old ship, some few rotten nets, and such-like inconsiderable accommodations.
1732. Berkeley, Alciphr., vi. § 19. Glaucus, or such-like great men in the minute philosophy.
a. 1774. Goldsm., Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776), I. 314. A piece of butter, or some such like substance.
1822. Lamb, Elia, I. Dream Childr. Peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such-like common baits of children.
1844. Kinglake, Eöthen, viii. She said … that the practice of such-like arts was unholy as well as vulgar.
1910. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 11), XIV. 167/2. When a dog, then, is observed to gnaw and eat suchlike matters,… it should be suspected.
† b. With quantitative adjs. and ellipt. Obs.
1489. Rolls of Parlt., VI. 434/2. Shetis, Dyapers, Pottes,… and other siche like.
1535. Joye, Apol. Tindale (Arb., 38). He calleth the same the lyfe of condempnacion or dampnable lyfe … with many siche lyke.
1614. Selden, Titles Hon., 6. Such like more occurre in ancient … Storie very frequent.
c. predicatively. (rare.)
1535. Coverdale, Ecclus. xlv. 6. He chose Aaron his brother…, exalted him, & made him soch like.
1767. Mickle, Concub., II. lix. Such was his Life;… And suchlich [sic] was his Cave.
1874. Sayce, Compar. Philol. ii. 69. Suchlike were the answers readily given to the inquirer.
d. Having forward reference, usually with correlative as. (rare.)
1591. Shaks., Two Gent., IV. i. 52. Such like petty crimes as these.
1598. Barnfield, ‘As it fell upon a day,’ 39 Poems (Arb.), 121. If that one be prodigall, Bountifull, they will him call. And with such-like flattering, Pitty but hee were a King.
1623. in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 288. Such-like course shall be taken as was in a like occasion at his Majesties coming into England.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., III. IV. 276. Suchlike hearts As ye have.
B. pron. Usually pl. Such-like persons or things; also sing., something of that kind; the like. Chiefly in and such-like, or such-like.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 74. Bark-duste, psidie, balaustie, mumme and sich like.
1535. Coverdale, Ps. xv. 3. All my delyte is vpon the sanctes that are in the earth, and vpon soch like. Ibid. (1535), Ezek. xviii. 14. A sonne … that seith all this fathers synnes,… feareth, nether doth soch like. Ibid. (1535), Gal. v. 21. The dedes of ye flesh are manifest, which are these:… dronkennes, glotony, and soch like.
1571. Digges, Pantom., I. xxviii. I j. Marked uppon a slate or such like.
1579. Mem. St. Giles’s, Durham (Surtees), 1. Payde to Richard Gylson … for layinge up earthe to ye whicke ij.s. vj.d. Item payde to Rycharde Robinson for suche lyke ii.s. iij.d.
1592. in J. Morris, Troubles Cath. Forefathers (1877), 32. Those letters are carried to Topcliffe or such like.
1669. Worlidge, Syst. Agric. (1681), 214. These Bushes, Brakes, and suchlike.
a. 1774. Goldsm., Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776), I. 191. A smooth marble hearth-stone, or such like.
1865. Kingsley, Herew., xl. He has a ring or two left, or an owch, or such like.
1869. Routledge’s Ev. Boy’s Ann., 6. There’s thorns and such-like as high as my head.
1878. Browning, Poets Croisic, etc., 193. A bard, sir, famed of yore, Went where suchlike used to go.
† b. as in A. d. Obs. rare.
1676. Hale, Contempl., I. 7. These, and such like as these.
