mimical
English
Etymology
From mimic + -al.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɪmɪk(ə)l/
Adjective
mimical (comparative more mimical, superlative most mimical)
- (obsolete) Pertaining to a mime, or jester.
- (now rare) Imitative; that mimics something else.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 3, member 2:
- If he can […] talk big fustian, insult, scorn, strut, contemn others, and use a little mimical and apish complement above the rest, he is a complete (Egregiam vero laudem), a well-qualified gentleman […].
- 1651, Henry Wotton, A Philosophical Survey of Education
- Man is, of all creatures, the most mimical.
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- (obsolete) Imitation; mock.