单词 | semblative |
释义 | ˈsemblative, a. rare. [f. semble v. + -ative, after semblant.] Coined by Shakes. (if the text is sound) to mean ‘like, resembling’, or perh. ‘seeming, appearing’. In the later quots.: Seeming; simulating the appearance (of).
1601Shakes. Twel. N. i. iv. 34 Thy small pipe Is as the maidens organ, shrill, and sound, And all is semblatiue a womans part. 1814A. Becket Genii i. in New Brit. Theatre I. 500 Well, young Marcellus, soon shall it be known If thine be actual worth, or merely semblative. 1816L. Towne Farmer & Grazier's Guide 60 The..ague-stricken Appearance which is betrayed in Oxen, when they become Hidebound, is semblative of an autumnal, or intermitting fever. |

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