Similitude
Translation- Similitude
- Similitude Si*mil"i*tude, n. [F. similitude, L. similitudo,
from similis similar. See {Similar}.]
1. The quality or state of being similar or like;
resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of
substance. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
Let us make now man in our image, man In our similitude. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of griefs to mine. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
2. The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile. [1913 Webster]
Tasso, in his similitudes, never departed from the woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from the country. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
3. That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile. [1913 Webster]
Man should wed his similitude. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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