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Webster 1913 Edition
Similitude
1.
The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity;
as,
. similitude
of substanceChaucer.
Let us make now man in our image, man
In our
In our
similitude
. Milton.
If fate some future bard shall join
In sad
In sad
similitude
of griefs to mine. Pope.
2.
The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
Tasso, in his
similitudes
, never departed from the woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from the country. Dryden.
3.
That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.
Man should wed his
similitude
. Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Similitude
SIMIL'ITUDE
,Noun.
1.
Likeness; resemblance; likeness in nature, qualities of appearance; as similitude of substance. Let us make man in our image, man in our similitude. Fate some future bard shall join in sad similitude of griefs to mine.2.
Comparison; simile. Tasso, in his similitude, never departed from the woods. [See Simile.]