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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Liken \Lik"en\ (l[imac]k"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Likened}
(-'nd); p. pr & vb n. {Likening}.] [OE. liknen. See {Like},
a.]
1. To allege, or think, to be like to represent as like to
compare; as to liken life to a pilgrimage.
Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth
them I will liken him unto a wise man which built
his house upon a rock. --Matt. vii.
24.
2. To make or cause to be like [R.] --Brougham.
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