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Definition of Stagelike
1. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of a stage (setting where a dramatic work is performed). ¹
2. Adjective. (science) proceeding through discrete stages; often used of developmental processes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stagelike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stagelike
Literary usage of Stagelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1888)
"... the stagelike time will bring you to most perfect light, and lay you open :
neither are you ..."
2. Appletons' Journal (1879)
"... re- nce as could be compassed on so short a nd after half an hour of such
unre- wrath, took down his coat, and began, and stagelike way, to put it on. ..."
3. The Works of John Marston by John Marston (1856)
"Although a stagelike passion, and weake heat, ^ull of an empty wording, might
sute age, Knew He speake strongly truth. Lordes, nere mistrust, That he who'l ..."
4. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1852)
"Perkin, not descending at all from his stagelike greatness, answered the king in
few words, that he saw his time was not yet come; but whatsoever his ..."
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