Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of American birds of which the mocking-bird, M. polyglottus, is the typc. See
mocking-bird , and cut undercatbird .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The type genus of the family
Mimidae , comprising certain of the mockingbirds.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the family Mimidae: mockingbirds
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Examples
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Italians and the Spaniards, signifying mimus, scurra, joculator — a mimic, a jester, a player of tricks.
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The most popular form of play was the mimus, and, as Diomedes, a rhetorician of the fifth century, implies, the note of indecency might be said to enter into its very definition.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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In answer to a question from Hegius, Agricola goes on to distinguish the words mimus, histrio, persona, scurra, nebulo; with quotations from Juvenal and Gellius.
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901
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That they were in fashion before the mimus is gathered from Cic. _ad Fam_. ix.
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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This famous idyl should rather, perhaps, be called a mimus.
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878
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+ In Italy the _commedia del arte_ was the continuation or revival of the _mimus_.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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With a failure of societal power the highest products disappeared first, but the low and vulgar _mimus_, which had been disregarded but had amused the crowd during prosperity, continued to exist.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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-- The _mimus_ from the third to the eighth century.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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The popular and comic _mimus_ of the Greeks is traced back to ritual acts of magic, in which the corn demons or growth demons are represented at work, making the reproduction and growth of the crops.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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The _mimus_ won acceptance at courts and in higher circles.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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