Liking

a. Of a good appearance; likely; pleasing. [Obs.] Dan. i. 10.

n. 1. A good state of body; healthful appearance; plumpness. [Obs.]

Their young ones are in good liking. Job xxxix. 4.

2Sense 2. State of trial. [Rare.]

Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance? Hazlitt.

3Sense 3. Inclination; pleasure; as, this is an amusement to your liking.

4Sense 4. Delight; pleasure; a feeling of satisfaction in, or of attraction toward, some object; — with to.

If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to any doctrine, . . . it draws every thing else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support. Bacon.