imitated

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From this national custom are derived the multitude of Spanish romances, translated or imitated from the Arabic, which, in

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  1. transitive verb To use or follow as a model.
  2. transitive verb To copy the actions, appearance, mannerisms, or speech of; mimic: amused friends by imitating the teachers.
  3. transitive verb To copy or use the style of: brushwork that imitates Rembrandt.

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  • Holly's voice is the most imitated, and inimitable, in rock. —  Expecting Rain
  • Only Madonna continues to remain a model to be imitated, the only one who knew how to adapt her style to evolving times, "they said." —  News24
  • For the imitator and the imitated, affordances in the agent-environment structural coupling are likely to be different, all the more in the case of dissimilar embodiment. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Some are religious, but side by side with her four dramatic Mysteries and her eloquent Triomphe de l'Agneau appears the Histoire des Satyres et Nymphes de Diane_, imitated from the Italian of Sannazaro. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
  • The "whoreson dead body" of the gravediggers' scene is turned into "le cadavre des enfants de nos mטres;" and in like manner that "whoreson mad fellow Yorick" is presented to us as "un fou nי d'une fille א la morale elastique The tragedy of Hamlet by Ducis does no wrong to the manes of Shakespeare, for though the title-page declares that it is "imitated from the English," nothing is left of Shakespeare's play save the names and the fact that Hamlet's father had been murdered before the action of the drama begins. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
 

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