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† ˈsimilary, a. Obs.
Also 7 -iary.
[See similar a. and -ary2. Common in the 17th cent.]
1. = similar a. 1.
(a)1564P. Moore Hope Health i. iv. 7 Soche members are compounded and doe consiste of the saied similarie and like partes. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 29 The partes then of the body are diuided into two sortes or kindes: the first is, the simple or similary parts, the other the compound parts. 1654Z. Coke Logick 196 Similary parts, as blood and other Humors, Flesh, Bones, Sinews, Arteries. 1671Grew Anat. Pl. i. (1682) 4 Having thus taken a view of the Organical Parts of the Bean, and other Seeds; let us next examine the Similary, sc. those whereof the Organical are compos'd.
(b)1635Heywood Hierarchy iii. Comm. 157 Anaxagoras..conferred the first generation upon small and Similarie particles. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. (1650) 40 Ice is a similary body, and homogeneous concretion, whose materiall is properly water. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. iii. 4 Fat is a similary Body void of Life.
2. = similar a. 2.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. lxix, Hence growes the height of friendship, when two similiary Soules shall blend..in their commixions. 1641H. L'Estrange God's Sabbath 125 As Augustine saith in a similarie case [etc.]. 1692South Serm. (1718) IV. 46 Rhyming cadencies of similary words. |