More clergymen were impoverished by the late war than ever in the
like space before.
Sprat.
3. Having probability; affording probability; probable; likely. [Likely
is more used now.] Shak.
But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox
of these practices.
South.
Many were not easy to be governed, nor like to conform themselves
to strict rules.
Clarendon.