semblable
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Like; similar; resembling.
- noun Likeness; resemblance; representation; that which is like or represents a certain thing.
Examples
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But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article; and his infusion of such dearth and rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
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Shrivelling the shreds in lieu of words, for no words grow there, nor roses either, she swept past her conspirator, her semblable, the seeker after vanished faces “like Venus” he thought, making a rough translation, “to her prey ...” and followed after.
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I was so elate and hauteyn in my heart that I thought no man my peer, nor to me semblable.
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And the wife of his son Alexis said, weeping, to Euphemius: I shall not depart out of your house, but shall make me semblable and like to the turtle, which after that she hath lost her fellow will take none other but all her life after liveth chaste.
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Nevertheless, a knight that was there, which was somewhat according to our faith, disclosed this miracle, and it is said a semblable thing happed at the Mount Victorial in the temple Jupiter.
Note
The word 'semblable' comes into English via a French word meaning 'resemble' and ultimately from Latin.
