semblative
English
Adjective
semblative (comparative more semblative, superlative most semblative)
- (obsolete) Resembling.
- c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iv], page 257, column 2:
- For they ſhall yet belye thy happy yeeres, / That ſay thou art a man: Dianas lip / Is not more ſmooth, and rubious: thy ſmall pipe / Is as the maidens organ, ſhrill, and ſound, / And all is ſemblatiue a womans part.
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(See the entry for semblative in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)