![]() – Tharsalio: And when shall this strange conception see light? – Lycus : Nay, I thinke he has not lickt his Whelpe into full shape yet, but you shall shortly heare ant. – Tharsalio: I, but the meanes man: what time? what probabilitie. – Lycus: To forge a rumour of his death, to vphold it by circumstance, maintaine a publike face of mourning, and all thinges appertaining. – Lycus : Hee is resolu’d to follow your aduise, to die, and make triall of her stablenesse, and you must lend your hand to it. Lycus, Lysander’s confidant, informs Tharsalio that his brother has decided to fake his own death: Tharsalio has made his brother, Lysander, doubt his wife, Cynthia, who has vowed not to remarry if she is ever widowed. In The widdowes teares (1612), by the English playwright George Chapman (1559?-1634), the phrase means to devise a stratagem. How suits at law are bred at first, and how they come afterwards to their perfect growth.Ī suit in law at its production, birth, and first beginning, seemeth to me, as unto your other worships, shapeless, without form or fashion, incomplete, ugly and imperfect, even as a bear at his first coming into the world hath neither hands, skin, hair, nor head, but is merely an inform, rude, and ill-favoured piece and lump of flesh, and would remain still so, if his dam, out of the abundance of her affection to her hopeful cub, did not with much licking put his members into that figure and shape which nature had provided for those of an arctic and ursinal kind. The English version by the Scottish author and translator Thomas Urquhart (1611-60) is as follows: L’ourse à force de leicher la mect en perfection des membres. Comme vn Ours naissant n’a pieds ne mains, peau, poil, ne teste : ce n’est qu’vne piece de chair rude & informe. Vn procés à sa naissance premiere me semble, comme à vous aultres messieurs, informe & imperfaict. The French satirist François Rabelais (circa 1494-1553) also mentioned this belief in Le tiers livre des faicts et dicts heroïques du bon Pantagruel (1546):Ĭomment naissent les procés, & comment ilz viennent à perfection. “Hast thou nought herd speke”, quod he, “how beres ben brought forthe al fowle and transformyd ? And after that, by lyckynge of the fader and the moder they ben brought in to theyr kyndely shap. The angel answers that, just like newborn bears who need to be licked into shape by their father and mother, humans are born imperfect, deformed by the original sin, and need to be shaped by the tongue of doctrine and of teaching (“ the tonge of Doctryne & of techyng”) the following is the beginning of this answer: The narrator asks his guardian angel to explain why a lady sitting on a chair is licking a deformed pilgrim. The first mention of this belief in English is in The Pylgremage of the Sowle, a 15 th-century rendering of the 14 th-century French work Le Pèlerinage de l’Âme by Guillaume de Deguileville (1295-circa 1358). These are shapeless white flesh, a little bigger than mice, with no eyes or hair their claws alone prominent. Hi sunt candida informisque caro, paulo muribus maior, sine oculis, sine pilo ungues tantum prominent. In his encyclopaedia of the natural and human worlds, Naturalis Historia ( The Natural History – 77), the Roman statesman and scholar Pliny the Elder (23-79) wrote, about newborn bears: This expression originated in the belief that bear cubs are born as formless lumps and need to be licked into their proper shape by their mothers. Send us feedback about these examples.The phrase to lick someone or something into shape means to act forcefully to bring someone or something into a fitter, more efficient or better-organised state. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'take a liking to.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2021 Middleton isn’t even the only member of the Mountbatten-Windsor clan to take a liking to Cave’s collection of green dresses. 2021 Hunter Chen is one of the guys at Ginny's brand new school who seems to take a liking to her. Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, And those looking to make an elegant statement will take a liking to Aeydē’s large, spherical earrings. 2022 Depp seemed to take a liking to Heard early on. 2022 His family also did not take a liking to her. 2023 Valerie and Harold take a liking to each other, which makes sense since Robbie and Washington are both charismatic and drop-dead gorgeous performers. Recent Examples on the Web Those who find their socks extra ripe after heavy use might take a liking to these.
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