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resembler|rɪˈzɛmblə(r)|
[f. resemble v.1 + -er1.]
One who or that which resembles some other person or thing; † a representative, type.
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxviii. (1887) 173 Apollo..to haue the presidencie ouer nyne wymen, the resemblers of learning. 1587Golding De Mornay vi. (1592) 82 The said Prouidence..is the euerlasting vnderstanding of God,..and the resembler of his goodnesse. 1601Holland Pliny x. li. I. 297 Surely it was no delight and pleasure that he sought herein to content the tooth, but only that he would have the name to eat the resemblers of mans voice. 1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 808 Those Happinesses the gods deny me in length, their perfectest Resembler confers on me in Weight. 1680Boyle Scept. Chem. iii. 188 A body by it self, that has few resemblers in the World. 1716Swift Corr. Wks. 1841 II. 531 Until Curll and his resemblers are hanged. 1824Landor Imag. Conv., Southey & Porson i. Wks. 1846 I. 18 Your attempt to prove Wordsworth shall I say the rival or the resembler of the ancients? 1893Chicago Advance 16 Mar., We have been upborne, while our Southern resemblers are waiting still the stirring of their nest. |