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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Things which are similar or alike; like things; similars.

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  • noun Plural form of simile.

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Examples

  • Amongst the Ancient Egyptians the metal was ill-omened being the bones of Typhon, 80 here, possibly, we have an instance of early homœopathy — similia similibus.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Cerastes serpens dictus eo quod in capite cornua habet similia arietum, cerusta Greci cornua dicunt.

    Sigh. WMAM. 2008

  • Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit.

    Sigh. WMAM. 2008

  • Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Cerastes serpens dictus eo quod in capite cornua habet similia arietum, cerusta Greci cornua dicunt.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Sicut viatores si ad saxum impegerint, aut nautae, memores sui casus, non ista modo quae offendunt, sed et similia horrent perpetuo et tremunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 56: PrSalQ, B294, p. 140: "Quare femine primo et secundo conceptus mense non appetanda appetunt, ut carbones et similia; in ceteris autem mensibus non est adeo irrationabilis earum appetitus?" back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • There is not any slavery which these villains will not undergo, inter illos plerique latrinas evacuant, alii culinariam curant, alii stabularios agunt, urinatores et id genus similia exercent, &c. like those people that dwell in the

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sed infinita his similia apud Rhasin, Matthiolum, Mizaldum, caeterosque medicos occurrunt, quorum ideo mentionem feci, ne quis imperitior in hos scopulas impingat, sed pro virili tanquam syrtes et cautes consulto effugiat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Multa etiam habent his similia, quæ reputant peccata.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

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