Lakish
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Wet; moist. rare
"I know he knowes that watrie lakish hill"
- 2 Characteristic of the Lake poets.
"We have next ‘Playhouse Musings,’ by Mr Coleridge—a piece which is unquestionably Lakish—though we cannot say that we recognize in it any of the peculiar traits of that powerful and misdirected genius whose name it has borrowed."
Example
More examples"Reish Lakish says: The same being is Satan, the Evil Inclination, and the Angel of Death."
Etymology
From lake + -ish.
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