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semblable, a. (and n.)|ˈsɛmbləb(ə)l|
Also 5 semlable, (semalable), sembleabil, semblabyll, 6 -yl, -il, -ell, sembleable, simblable. See also semnable, similable.
[a. F. semblable (13th c.), f. sembler to seem, appear: see semble v. and -able. Cf. seemable.]
A. adj.
†1.
a. Like, similar. Const. to. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. v. (1868) 48 Ȝe men þat ben semblable to god by ȝoure resonable þouȝt. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 98, I finde hem all so semblable that I can not knowe one from the other. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 17 If so be my discredit, and want of honestie, had been equal or semblable to theirs. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, v. i. 72 It is a wonderfull thing to see the semblable Coherence of his mens spirits, and his. 1609G. Benson Serm. 7 May 60 Semblable vnto Ephraim are many, who know too much and too little. 1658Osborne Tradit. Mem. Jas. I, §17. 55 He owning a Countenance not in the least regard semblable to any my eyes ever met with. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. i. 125 God who has made Light to move for thousands of Miles in an instant, by a streight Line, may make it move a semblable space through a Circle, if the use of the World requires it. 1840Fraser's Mag. XXI. 214 Semblable to this is the story of the mad waggery, by which [etc.].
b. Resembling something already mentioned or implied; the like, such-like. Also the semblable, such semblable. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 256, I seye the same, or elles thing semblable. a1470Tiptoft Cæsar x. (1530) 11 These and such semblable things. 1544tr. Littleton's Tenures 50 b, To yelde to his lorde yerely at suche a feaste a horse, or a hauke, or such thynge semblable. 1571Fortescue Forest 164 b, The fallyng evill also with others many the semblable and like infirmities. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. iv. 3 That and thousands more Of semblable import. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xxxviii. 151 As is the custom in semblable occasions.
c. in semblable manner, semblable wise, semblable sort, in like manner; semblablewise, likewise. Also in semblable case(s, in case(s semblable. Obs.
1390Gower Conf. I. 63 And riht so in semblable cas This vice hath ek his officers Among these othre seculers. c1410Lydg. Reas. & Sens. 157 And thus in semblable wise The erthe did him self disgise. 1511–2Act 3 Hen. VIII, c. 23 §7 As thei have doon..in cases semblable. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Eph. iv. 14–16 And in semblable wyse vnto this, there is a lyke procedyng in the ordre of godlinesse. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 10 The heavenly soule of man..semblablewise, doth feele..the ill affected crasis of the body. 1624Bp. R. Montagu Immed. Addr. 79 We may therefore Call vnto Holy Saints as well, and in semblable sort.
†2.
a. Corresponding, proportional, accordant, suitable. Obs.
1513Life Hen. V (1911) 19 And that hath bin..the vtter impouerishinge and vndooeinge not of a fewe men wthin this Realme, wch haue not bin able to make semblable intercessors and aduocates to theire Prince. Ibid. 145 The Kinge continewed by treatie trustinge to finde the way of peace, wch was semblable enoughe had not the Dolphine [etc.]. 1632Lithgow Trav. ii. 52 Their..legges [were] of a great growth, not semblable to their age, being but sixe and thirty dayes old. 1681Wittie Surv. Heav. 44 Whether it be not most suitable..to the Wisdom, and Power of God.., and semblable to the plain course of his Providence. 1817J. F. Pennie Roy. Minstr. ii. 504 But who can paint In language semblable, the blissful scene.
†b. Seemly, becoming. Obs.
1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lx. 188 Neither could Monarchy, Aristocracy, nor Democracy, attaine any semblable condition in any place so long as the Church held its designe apart.
3. Apparent, seeming, not real. † Of treason: Presumptive, constructive. rare.
1627W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 264 Imitation implies three things: 1 Factum, semblable, or rather reall acting of what we pretend to imitate. 1642D. Rogers Naaman 244 Here is no actuall, but an appearing and semblable concurrence. 1660Trial Regic. 124 That there shall be no semblable Treasons made by presumptions or straines of wit, but those Treasons specified there. 1696Phillips, Semblable, seeming, likely or probable. 1874Farrar Christ (1894) 122 What is gained..by supposing..the miracle was only semblable, not real?
†4. quasi-adv. = semblably adv. Obs.
1490Caxton Eneydos xv. 54 For to make semblable [orig. semblablement] his aunsuers duryng the syx monethes of the somer. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 817 Semblable my Cosin the Erle of Richmonde,..will surely attempt..to pierce me on the other syde.
B. n.
†1. absol. and quasi-n. (occas. pl. semblables): Something that is like or similar. the semblable = the like (see like C. 3); as, to do the semblable (= F. faire le semblable). Obs.
c1400Rom. Rose 6759 In al this caas, and in semblables, If that ther ben mo resonables, He may begge, as I telle you here. 1471Caxton Recuyell (Sommer) 115 He that doeth shewe loue and curtoisie ought to be thankyd by semblable. 1521Wolsey in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. I. 283 Who..herin geueth vnto you herty thanks, like as I do the semblable. 1528Instruct. P. Vannes in Burnet Hist. Ref. (1679) I. ii. Rec. 48 Studying how they may acquite this your Ingratitude..with the semblable. 1560in J. Scott Berwick-upon-Tweed (1888) 448 Yf any soldiers of the garrison be appointed to keep scourage or any such semblables as their course shall come about. 1627Hakewill Apol. iv. vi. §4. 343 Long before their time, Clodius..practised the semblable in pearles of great price.
2. With qualifying possessive: (One's) like, (one's) fellow. (So F. son semblable.) (Revived in 20th cent. use.)
c1400Rom. Rose 4855 For he shulde setten al his wil To geten a likly thing him til, And to sustene, if he might, And kepe forth, by kindes right, His owne lyknesse and semblable. a1412Lydg. Two Merch. 83 Vnto his semblable thus euery thyng can drawe. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 6 b, Every natural complexion delyteth in his semblable. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. ii. 124 (1604 Qo.) To make true dixion of him, his semblable is his mirrour. 1607― Timon iv. iii. 22 His semblable, yea himselfe Timon disdaines. 1922Joyce Ulysses 377 It behoves every most just citizen to become the exhortator and admonisher of his semblables. [1923T. S. Eliot Waste Land i. 8 You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!] 1941V. Woolf Between Acts 242 There was Dodge, the lip-reader, her semblable, her conspirator. 1979Dædalus Summer 30 These thoughts picture Othello as, in various ways, a semblable of yours.
†3. A similitude or parable. Obs.
1547Baldwin Mor. Philos. i. iv. (1550) A vj, Parrables, Semblables & examples, (though differing in sumwhat) drawe al to one ende. |