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simulacre|ˈsɪmjʊleɪkə(r)|
Forms: 4–5 symyl-, similacre (5 -achre, semylacre); 4–5, 7 symulacre (5 semulacre, symolachre), 6–7, 9 simulachre (6 -acher), 4, 7– simulacre.
[a. OF. simulacre (= Catal. simulacre, Prov. simulacra, Sp., Pg., It. simulacro), ad. L. simulacrum: see simulacrum.]
1. An image (of a god, etc.) to which honour or worship is rendered.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints vi. (Thomas) 653, I þe commawnd, ful fend, þat þare-In is dwelland, Þat þu þat semulacre brake. 1382Wyclif 1 John v. 21 Litil sones, kepe ȝe fro simulacris. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xviii. 82 Simulacres er ymages made to þe liknes of sum thing þat es kyndely; and ydoles er ymages made to þe liknes of what thing a man will þat es noȝt kyndely. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 206 Alle thydolles and other symylacres that he fonde, he dyd do destroye. 1531Elyot Gov. i. viii, Phidias..made of yuory the simulachre or image of Jupiter, honoured by the gentiles. 1577Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 300 Albinius did sweare by the simulachre of Diana, not once, but thrice. 1613Treas. Anc. Mod. Times I. 765/2 Infamous Dæmons possessed themselues of these Statues and Symulacres. 1800W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VIII. 598 Distributions have been made..of engraved and waxen simulacres of saints, with the view..of introducing..a taste for image-worship, and a love of holy idolatry. 1851Madden Shrines & Sepulchres I. 45 As temples had their origin in tombs, so idols had theirs in the simulacres of deceased men.
2. An image, a material or mental representation, of a person or thing.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 66 b/1 Whan the messagers cam they fonde a symylacre or an ymage in his bedde. 1590T. Fenne Frutes 12 When Perdicas had espied the sumptuous simulachre of dead Alexander. 1658Bergerac's Satirical Charac. xvii. 71 In fine, Simulacre of envy, leave your biting. 1830James Darnley (1846) 160 A knight, in whom Sir Osborne might easily distinguish the simulacre of himself. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home (1883) I. 306 Give the emotions that cluster about it,..and you get something like a simulachre of the object in the midst of them. 1871Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life (1895) II. 17, I..sang ‘Salve mundi Domine’ before the simulacre of Fred. B.
Hence ˈsimulacrize v. intr., to pretend.
1845S. Judd Margaret ii. ii, ‘Are you sincere?’ she asked. ‘Are you not simulacrizing?’ |