Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a similar manner; similarly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete In like manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb obsolete In a
similar way;similarly . - adverb rare
Seemingly ,apparently .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Though he has here given 'to airy nothing a local habitation and a name', yet that part which is only the fantastic creation of his mind, has the same palpable texture, and coheres 'semblably' with the rest.
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays William Hazlitt 1804
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Then do I likewise and semblably throw the dice for him, and forthwith livre him his chance.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Then do I likewise and semblably throw the dice for him, and forthwith livre him his chance.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Then sayd Milo, the same is he and no other, who semblably hath declared many things here unto us, whereby hee got and obtained great substance and Treasure.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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It is much greater thing of the light than of the shadow; semblably of verity than it is of figure; and also much greater of the body of our creator and maker, than it is of the manna that came from heaven.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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But Gregory passeth the manner of this vision because of shortness, but we find semblably in the lives of Fathers that. as a man entered in a temple of the idols, he saw the devil sitting and all his meiny about him.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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Item semblably it is read that that God did for her when in her college the pots were failed.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900
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And he was afeard, and called more men to him for to hear this voice, and began to dig again, and then they heard semblably that voice, and then they went more near and said: Who art thou?
The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900
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The whole "coheres semblably together" in time, place, and circumstance.
Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt 1804
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Then sayd Milo, the same is he and no other, who semblably hath declared many things here unto us, whereby hee got and obtained great substance and Treasure.
The Golden Asse 1566
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