Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a mimicking or imitative manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an imitative manner.
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- adverb In a
mimicking orimitative manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then clapping her hands together, she turn'd off to so violent a laughter, that made us apprehensive of some design against us; the same also did the woman that came in first, and the girl that came with her; but so mimically, that seeing no reason for so sudden a change, we one while star'd on one another, and otherwhile on the woman.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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So we may be sure, that much less does he take such care for apes and monkeys, for goats and swine; for such as are good for nothing, but either mimically to imitate their neighbours 'fooleries, or to immerse themselves in all kind of lascivious and debauched living.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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It is difficult to teach even playfully or mimically in reconciliation with poetic effect: and the object is to wrestle with this difficulty.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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