liken

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LIKEN, verb transitive li'kn. To compare; to represent as resembling or similar. Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, that built his house on a rock. Matthew 6:1.
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