on liking

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on liking - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Liking \Lik"ing\, n.
     1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking,
        below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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     2. The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some
        thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure;
        preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is
        an amusement I have no liking for.
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              If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to
              any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into
              harmony with that doctrine, and to its support.
                                                    --Bacon.
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     3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or
        condition. [Archaic]
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              I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I
              have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
                                                    --Shak.
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              Their young ones are in good liking.  --Job. xxxix.
                                                    4.
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     On liking, on condition of being pleasing to or suiting;
        also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a
        place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking.
        [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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              Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line
              . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance?
                                                    --Hazlitt.
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