Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a mimetic manner; imitatively; in the manner of a mime.
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Examples
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The Mass is not a depiction of the Last Supper. […] it reenacts the death and Resurrection of Christ sacramentally and not mimetically.
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Bio-identical estradiol and progesterone dosed bio-mimetically should successfully restore lost youth in the brain.
T.S. Wiley: Estrogen Dilemma: There Is No Dilemma When You Know the Details T.S. Wiley 2010
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What else obviously isn't real despite being presented mimetically as being real as part of the fun?
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010
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People who write mimetically are interested in explaining the world as it is.
You can call me... The Doctor Kat Howard 2009
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People who write mimetically are interested in explaining the world as it is.
Archive 2009-08-01 Kat Howard 2009
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But ultimately what's demanded by the baby-boomer theatergoers that "Jersey Boys" seems destined to attract is a mimetically precise rendering of songs like "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll" and "Walk Like a Man," composed by Mr. Gaudio with lyrics by Bob Crewe (portrayed here as a gay diva of a record producer by Peter Gregus).
November 2005 2005
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Oh, and by “mimetically repeat,” I mean continue to use without thinking them through or interrogating their usefulness and their implications — that is, just mimicking them from book to book.
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Oh, and by “mimetically repeat,” I mean continue to use without thinking them through or interrogating their usefulness and their implications — that is, just mimicking them from book to book.
Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary » A Reader in the Middle » Print 2007
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To further this theory we might consider that we ourselves were mimetically motivated to label her Sissy French-fry after we consumed a quality happy meal and got our Pirates of the Caribbean toy.
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Criticism conceptually articulates the contributions toward an expanded conceptuality that art has generated mimetically, nondiscursively.
Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics 2003
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