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simious, a.|ˈsɪmɪəs|
[f. Simia + -ous.]
1. Belonging to the race of apes; having apish characteristics.
1804–6Syd. Smith Sk. Mor. Philos. (1850) 190 A model of perfect conformation to the whole simious tribe. 1807― P. Plymley's Lett. iii. (ed. 3) 5 note, That simious parasite who is always grinning at his heels. 1864Sat. Rev. 21 May, Neither woman nor man, but some simious interloper from Equatorial Africa. 1887G. Salmon Non-miraculous Christ. (ed. 2) 141 Tribes of simious men gradually groping their way..from savage ignorance to..limited knowledge.
2. Typical or characteristic of apes.
c1835Syd. Smith Ballot Wks. 1859 II. 307/1 That strange simious schoolboy passion of giving pain to others. 1839C. A. Murray Trav. N. Amer. I. 320 A low receding fore⁓head, a nose somewhat simious. [Note.] I believe I can justly claim the invention or anglicising of this word. 1882Traill Sterne iv. 35 A novel in which he might give full play to his simious humour.
Hence ˈsimiousness.
1878Fraser's Mag. XVII. 59 The obtrusive simiousness of the Mongolian features. |