like as
English
editEtymology
editSee like.
Conjunction
edit- (archaic) Just as; in the same way as; even as.
- 1611, Bible, Job 5.26:
- Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Usage notes
editThe forms like as if and like as and are sometimes found. The former is rare; the latter obsolete.
- 1799, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letters, published 1895, section 272:
- I held the letter in my hand like as if I was stupid.
- 1523, John Fitzherbert, The Boke of Surveying, section 13.31:
- Lyke as and it were extortion.
References
edit- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “like as”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.