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mimical, a. (and n.)|ˈmɪmɪkəl|
Also 7 mymicall.
[f. mimic a. + -al1.]
A. adj.
†1. = mimic a. 1. Obs.
1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. 104 The Puppets have alwaies a Mimicall prolocutor to tel what they meane. a1618Raleigh Rem. (1644) 264 A Mimical French-man whom I entertained..for his Iests. a1661Fuller Worthies, Kent (1662) ii. 80 A Mimical Ape. 1693J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. 293 Devils..are a mimical sort of creatures..diligent emulators of the most holy persons.
2. † Befitting a mime or burlesque actor (obs.); pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of mimicry.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God vi. i. (1620) 226 It were like Mimicall scurrility to demand any thing of any one of them [sc. gods], which resteth vnder the disposing of another. 1617Moryson ltin. iii. 7, I beheld the mimicall gestures..of the Roman Priests. 1617Bp. Hall Quo Vadis? (1628) §14 A few waste complements and mimicall courtesies. 1676Wiseman Surg. i. xxiii. 132 Without speaking or opening his Eyes for many months, onely some odd mimicall gestures he used. 1709Steele Tatler No. 99 ⁋1 By introducing mimical Dances, and fulsom Buffoonries. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. III. ii. 93 The petty Tyrannys and mimical Politys of some new Pretenders. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1775) I. i. 49 No priest shall be a poet, or exercise the mimical or histrionical art in any degree. 1840–1De Quincey Style Wks. 1859 XI. 171 The mimical situations of novels. 1873Q. Rev. Oct. 340 She had musical and mimical talents.
†3. = mimic a. 3. Obs.
1624Gee New Shreds of O. Snare 17 The Actor that puts life into this mimicall Artillery by motion and voice. 1663Proposal to use no Conscience 2 Small mimical oaths, as when we swear by our Honor..or Faith. 1693Emilianne's Hist. Monast. Ord. ii. i. 232 The Nuns..did in progress of time attribute to their cutting off their Hair,..and mimical Habits, a holy Virtue.
B. n. An imitator; an actor.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 9/2 Euterpe..is the goddess of Mymicals.
Hence ˈmimically adv., † ˈmimicalness.
1623Cockeram ii, Scoffingly, Irronically, Mimically. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xii. 181 So long mimically imitating mad men that he became one. a1661Fuller (Ogilvie 1882), The mimicalness of the ape. 1711Puckle Club 107 Be neither mimically in, nor ridiculously out of the fashion. |