mimeticn.adj.

Brit.

/mᵻˈmɛtɪk/,

/mʌɪˈmɛtɪk/, U.S.

/məˈmɛdɪk/

Forms: 1600s–1800s mimetick, 1600s– mimetic.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin mimeticus; Greek μιμητικός.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin mimeticus imitative (4th cent.) or its etymon ancient Greek μιμητικός able to imitate, imitative < μιμητής imitator, artist ( < μιμεῖσθαι to imitate (see mime v.) + -της , suffix forming agent nouns) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare earlier mimetical adj.With mimetic art (see sense B. 2) compare ancient Greek ἡ μιμητικὴ τέχνη (Plato).

A. n.

†1. Perhaps: a mime, buffoon. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature Ep. Ded. sig. B2^v It is rather fit for the Mimeticks to dispute, then for mee to determine.

2. Pharmacology and Biochemistry. A synthetic compound that produces the same (or a very similar) effect as another (esp. a naturally occurring) compound. Cf. mimic adj. 4.

ΚΠ

1971 Experientia 27 581 Failure to demonstrate sterilans effect of juvenile hormone mimetics in Pieris brassicae and Galleria mellonella.

1978 Nature 2 Mar. 56/2 In 1971, we initiated investigations aimed at identifying synthetic peptide mimetics related to d-Ala- d-Ala that might have antibacterial properties.

1982 FEBS Lett. 147 175 Bicyclic mimetics of captopril..have been designed and synthesized.

1990 Protein Engin. 4 1/1 For receptors of medicinal interest whose natural ligands are peptides, it is useful to investigate peptide mimetics..for drug development.

B. adj.

1. Having a particular aptitude for mimicry or imitation; habitually practising imitation or mime. Now rare exc. under influence of later senses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > given or prone to imitation

mimetic1637

imitative1752

1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione 9 But Fucus, lead by most mimetick Apes, Could not depinge Don Fuco's antick shapes.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 59 The mimetic troops..begin their campaign [at the theatres] when all the others quit the field.

1975 D. Lodge Changing Places i. 5 He is a mimetic man: unconfident, eager to please, infinitely suggestible.

2. Relating to, characterized by, or of the nature of imitation; spec. representing, picturing, or presenting the real world (esp. in literature, art, etc.); (in Literary Criticism) (now frequently) realist.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective]

imitative1573

imitating1591

mimeticala1617

emulous1667

eicastic1669

mimetic1669

imitative1700

imitational1833

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. i. 18 Mimetic Poesie: which the Platonists distribute into..Eicastic, and..Phantastic.

1744 J. Harris Three Treat. 75 The Mimetic Art of Poetry has been hitherto considered, as fetching its Imitation from mere Natural Resemblance.

1769 R. Wood Ess. Homer To Rdr. 2 We shall confine our inquiry to Homer's Mimetick Powers.

1789 T. Twining tr. Aristotle Treat. Poetry 43 There could be no difficulty in conceiving Poetry to be an Imitative Art, when it was scarce known to them but through the visible medium of arts, strictly and literally, mimetic.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 283 Chatham himself lives the strangest mimetic life, half-hero, half-quack, all along.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxii. 236 Crying when she expected him to cry, and reflecting every phase of her feeling with mimetic susceptibility.

1884 H. Jennings Phallicism ix. 99 Among the Greeks all dancing was of the mimetic kind.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 170/1 Mimetic posture-dances..were..introduced.

1953 M. H. Abrams Mirror & Lamp i. 10 It is apparent, however, that the mimetic concept—the reference of a work to the subject matter which it imitates—is primary in Aristotle's critical system.

1982 J. Updike Bech is Back 28 A remarkable native sculpture with uncanny mimetic sympathy created in painted plaster an ornate, enigmatic tower.

1989 G. Steiner Real Presences i. vi. 30 Cicero's heuristic, mimetic and critical treatments of the Greek legacy constitute the binding model for the scholastic-academic enterprise of the humanities in the West.

†3. = mimic adj. 3; pretended, counterfeited. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > simulation > [adjective] > artificial or made in imitation of what is real

artificialc1425

unnatural1610

mimical1624

mimic1625

faux1684

mimetic1756

sham1762

imitative1839

imitation1840

mocked-up1919

synthetic1930

1756 J. G. Cooper in World 15 Jan. 957 They may be enabled to make an exit as they have lived, in mimetic grandeur.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 94 When the Duke of Normandy visited..Edward the Confessor, he beheld in England a mimetic Normandy.

1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains ix. 266 A false and merely mimetic poverty.

a. Biology. Characterized by or of the nature of mimicry (mimicry n. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > mimetic

mimetic1851

mimicked1866

mimicking1872

Müllerian1899

the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > resemblance between different organisms > mimetic or mimicking

mimetic1851

mimicked1866

mocking1869

mimicking1872

the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [adjective] > characterized by mimicry or that imitates

mocking1869

mimetic1882

1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 56 A second class of analogical resemblances are purely external and illusive; they have been termed mimetic.

1871 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (rev. ed.) Gen. Introd. 18 It appears that the mimetic species is protected from some enemy by its outward similarity to the form which it mimics.

1882 Garden 28 Jan. 53/2 There are also cases of mimetic variation.

1930 R. A. Fisher Genetical Theory Nat. Selection vii. 163 We should be forced to admit that the mimetic females arose as sports or saltations totally unlike their mothers.

1951 New Biol. 10 73 Müllerian and Batesian mimics may be involved together in nature in a complex mimetic association.

1972 L. E. Chadwick tr. W. Linsenmaier Insects of World 165/1 There are a great many mimetic forms that resemble protected beetles.

1996 New Scientist 6 Apr. 44/2 Males of this species mimic a poisonous butterfly species, the pipevine swallowtail, whereas females are not mimetic.

b. Medicine. Designating or relating to a disease having symptoms or signs that resemble those of another disease.

ΚΠ

1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Mimetic, applied to diseases that resemble, or appear like imitations of others.

1961 Arch. Internal Med. 108 370/2 Another mimetic potentiality of small intestinal diverticulosis is the simulation of intestinal obstruction on radiological examination.

1971 Clin. Pediatrics 10 610 (title) Abdominal pain in acute rheumatic fever. An unusual demonstration of the mimetic nature of this disease.

c. Pharmacology and Biochemistry. Of a compound: producing the same (or a similar) effect (as another, esp. a naturally occurring, compound).

ΚΠ

1966 Arzneimittelforschung 16 762 The effect of beta-mimetic adrenergic drugs on the activity of the pregnant human uterus.

1985 Austral. & N.Z. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynaecol. 25 182 Selective beta-mimetic drugs are the most frequently used agents for arresting preterm labour.

1993 Cardiovasc. Res. 27 2140 A preconditioning mimetic agent could be useful therapy for cardiac ischaemic events.

1999 Biochem. & Biophysical Res. Communications 262 615 These results may provide novel strategies for rational design and targeted development of mimetic antiviral and anti-tumor therapeutics.

†5. Grammar. Of sound change: imitative; occurring through imitation or analogy. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1877 F. A. March Compar. Gram. Anglo-Saxon Lang. §40. 27 Mimetic changes are those occurring through the influence of other words.

1889 N.E.D. at Chirp v. A late word, evidently owing its origin to the working of mimetic modification upon the earlier synonyms chirk and chirt.

a. Crystallography. [after German mimetisch (G. Tschermak 1879, in Zeitschr. der Deutsch. Geol. Ges. 31 638).] Characterized by pseudosymmetry; appearing to have a higher degree of symmetry than is the case.

ΚΠ

1881 W. J. Lewis in Nature No. 616. 355 Twin and mimetic crystals.

1888 J. J. H. Teall Brit. Petrogr. 440 Mimetic. Tschermak proposed to call those crystals mimetic which possess externally a high degree of symmetry, but are built up by polysynthetic twinning of crystals having a low grade of symmetry. Thus chabasite is termed a mimetic rhombohedral crystal.

1902 H. A. Miers Mineral. i. 94 In this way a crystal may simulate the symmetry of a higher system; such twinning is called ‘mimetic’, or imitative, and crystals so twinned are said to be ‘pseudo-symmetric’.

b. Geology. Reflecting or influenced by a pre-existing structural feature or characteristic.

ΚΠ

1931 F. E. Suess in Geol. Mag. 68 78 The parallel arrangement of biotite may have been derived from a former original parallel texture of any origin (sedimentary or tectonic, i.e. by foliation or cleavage) by mimetic crystallization (Abbildungskristallisation, Sander).

1938 E. F. Knopf & E. Ingerson Structural Petrology iii. 39 Crystallization that reproduces any pre-existent anisotropy, bedding, schistosity, or other structues, is called mimetic crytallization. This term was introduced by Suess, to translate the ‘Abbildungskristallisation’ of Sander.

1966 Contrib. Mineral. & Petrol. 12 223 Staurolite..shows peculiar radial sieve textures caused by mimetic crystallization after preexisting chloritoid rosettes.

1981 Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 138 475 Static mimetic recrystallization will be prompted, so that the fabric becomes metamorphic in appearance while retaining its bedding-parallel orientation.

1999 Earth & Planetary Sci. Lett. 167 255 The petrofabric of the weathered material is often characterized by a mimetic replacement of primary minerals that fully preserve the primary fabric.

7. Medicine. Designating, relating to, or affecting the superficial muscles of the face that surround the eyes, nose, and mouth and are innervated by the facial nerve. Cf. histrionic adj. 3, mimic adj. 4.

ΚΠ

1885 J. Ross Handbk. Dis. Nerv. Syst. v. 365 Paralysis in the area of distribution of the seventh nerve (mimetic paralysis, hemiplegia and diplegia facialis, prosopalgia, Bell's paralysis).

1886 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. III. 7 The muscles of the face are divided into two grand divisions, the masticatory and the mimetic.

1941 A. Brodal Neurol. Anat. vii. 226 Quantitatively the motor..fibres, supplying the facial, mimetic musculature, form the most important part [of the facial nerve].

1970 Dental Digest 76 347 (title) Corrective massage for atrophic masticatory and mimetic muscles.

2001 Ann. Plastic Surg. 46 301 Hypoglossal-facial nerve crossover and cross-facial nerve grafting are the best options if the mimetic muscles around the mouth are still viable.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mimetic
释义	mimeticn.adj. Brit. /mᵻˈmɛtɪk/, /mʌɪˈmɛtɪk/, U.S. /məˈmɛdɪk/ Forms: 1600s–1800s mimetick, 1600s– mimetic. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin mimeticus; Greek μιμητικός. Etymology: < post-classical Latin mimeticus imitative (4th cent.) or its etymon ancient Greek μιμητικός able to imitate, imitative < μιμητής imitator, artist ( < μιμεῖσθαι to imitate (see mime v.) + -της , suffix forming agent nouns) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare earlier mimetical adj.With mimetic art (see sense B. 2) compare ancient Greek ἡ μιμητικὴ τέχνη (Plato). A. n. †1. Perhaps: a mime, buffoon. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature Ep. Ded. sig. B2^v It is rather fit for the Mimeticks to dispute, then for mee to determine. 2. Pharmacology and Biochemistry. A synthetic compound that produces the same (or a very similar) effect as another (esp. a naturally occurring) compound. Cf. mimic adj. 4. ΚΠ 1971 Experientia 27 581 Failure to demonstrate sterilans effect of juvenile hormone mimetics in Pieris brassicae and Galleria mellonella. 1978 Nature 2 Mar. 56/2 In 1971, we initiated investigations aimed at identifying synthetic peptide mimetics related to d-Ala- d-Ala that might have antibacterial properties. 1982 FEBS Lett. 147 175 Bicyclic mimetics of captopril..have been designed and synthesized. 1990 Protein Engin. 4 1/1 For receptors of medicinal interest whose natural ligands are peptides, it is useful to investigate peptide mimetics..for drug development. B. adj. 1. Having a particular aptitude for mimicry or imitation; habitually practising imitation or mime. Now rare exc. under influence of later senses. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > given or prone to imitation mimetic1637 imitative1752 1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione 9 But Fucus, lead by most mimetick Apes, Could not depinge Don Fuco's antick shapes. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 59 The mimetic troops..begin their campaign [at the theatres] when all the others quit the field. 1975 D. Lodge Changing Places i. 5 He is a mimetic man: unconfident, eager to please, infinitely suggestible. 2. Relating to, characterized by, or of the nature of imitation; spec. representing, picturing, or presenting the real world (esp. in literature, art, etc.); (in Literary Criticism) (now frequently) realist. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] imitative1573 imitating1591 mimeticala1617 emulous1667 eicastic1669 mimetic1669 imitative1700 imitational1833 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. i. 18 Mimetic Poesie: which the Platonists distribute into..Eicastic, and..Phantastic. 1744 J. Harris Three Treat. 75 The Mimetic Art of Poetry has been hitherto considered, as fetching its Imitation from mere Natural Resemblance. 1769 R. Wood Ess. Homer To Rdr. 2 We shall confine our inquiry to Homer's Mimetick Powers. 1789 T. Twining tr. Aristotle Treat. Poetry 43 There could be no difficulty in conceiving Poetry to be an Imitative Art, when it was scarce known to them but through the visible medium of arts, strictly and literally, mimetic. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 283 Chatham himself lives the strangest mimetic life, half-hero, half-quack, all along. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxii. 236 Crying when she expected him to cry, and reflecting every phase of her feeling with mimetic susceptibility. 1884 H. Jennings Phallicism ix. 99 Among the Greeks all dancing was of the mimetic kind. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 170/1 Mimetic posture-dances..were..introduced. 1953 M. H. Abrams Mirror & Lamp i. 10 It is apparent, however, that the mimetic concept—the reference of a work to the subject matter which it imitates—is primary in Aristotle's critical system. 1982 J. Updike Bech is Back 28 A remarkable native sculpture with uncanny mimetic sympathy created in painted plaster an ornate, enigmatic tower. 1989 G. Steiner Real Presences i. vi. 30 Cicero's heuristic, mimetic and critical treatments of the Greek legacy constitute the binding model for the scholastic-academic enterprise of the humanities in the West. †3. = mimic adj. 3; pretended, counterfeited. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > simulation > [adjective] > artificial or made in imitation of what is real artificialc1425 unnatural1610 mimical1624 mimic1625 faux1684 mimetic1756 sham1762 imitative1839 imitation1840 mocked-up1919 synthetic1930 1756 J. G. Cooper in World 15 Jan. 957 They may be enabled to make an exit as they have lived, in mimetic grandeur. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 94 When the Duke of Normandy visited..Edward the Confessor, he beheld in England a mimetic Normandy. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains ix. 266 A false and merely mimetic poverty. 4. a. Biology. Characterized by or of the nature of mimicry (mimicry n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > mimetic mimetic1851 mimicked1866 mimicking1872 Müllerian1899 the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > resemblance between different organisms > mimetic or mimicking mimetic1851 mimicked1866 mocking1869 mimicking1872 the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [adjective] > characterized by mimicry or that imitates mocking1869 mimetic1882 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 56 A second class of analogical resemblances are purely external and illusive; they have been termed mimetic. 1871 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (rev. ed.) Gen. Introd. 18 It appears that the mimetic species is protected from some enemy by its outward similarity to the form which it mimics. 1882 Garden 28 Jan. 53/2 There are also cases of mimetic variation. 1930 R. A. Fisher Genetical Theory Nat. Selection vii. 163 We should be forced to admit that the mimetic females arose as sports or saltations totally unlike their mothers. 1951 New Biol. 10 73 Müllerian and Batesian mimics may be involved together in nature in a complex mimetic association. 1972 L. E. Chadwick tr. W. Linsenmaier Insects of World 165/1 There are a great many mimetic forms that resemble protected beetles. 1996 New Scientist 6 Apr. 44/2 Males of this species mimic a poisonous butterfly species, the pipevine swallowtail, whereas females are not mimetic. b. Medicine. Designating or relating to a disease having symptoms or signs that resemble those of another disease. ΚΠ 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Mimetic, applied to diseases that resemble, or appear like imitations of others. 1961 Arch. Internal Med. 108 370/2 Another mimetic potentiality of small intestinal diverticulosis is the simulation of intestinal obstruction on radiological examination. 1971 Clin. Pediatrics 10 610 (title) Abdominal pain in acute rheumatic fever. An unusual demonstration of the mimetic nature of this disease. c. Pharmacology and Biochemistry. Of a compound: producing the same (or a similar) effect (as another, esp. a naturally occurring, compound). ΚΠ 1966 Arzneimittelforschung 16 762 The effect of beta-mimetic adrenergic drugs on the activity of the pregnant human uterus. 1985 Austral. & N.Z. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynaecol. 25 182 Selective beta-mimetic drugs are the most frequently used agents for arresting preterm labour. 1993 Cardiovasc. Res. 27 2140 A preconditioning mimetic agent could be useful therapy for cardiac ischaemic events. 1999 Biochem. & Biophysical Res. Communications 262 615 These results may provide novel strategies for rational design and targeted development of mimetic antiviral and anti-tumor therapeutics. †5. Grammar. Of sound change: imitative; occurring through imitation or analogy. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1877 F. A. March Compar. Gram. Anglo-Saxon Lang. §40. 27 Mimetic changes are those occurring through the influence of other words. 1889 N.E.D. at Chirp v. A late word, evidently owing its origin to the working of mimetic modification upon the earlier synonyms chirk and chirt. 6. a. Crystallography. [after German mimetisch (G. Tschermak 1879, in Zeitschr. der Deutsch. Geol. Ges. 31 638).] Characterized by pseudosymmetry; appearing to have a higher degree of symmetry than is the case. ΚΠ 1881 W. J. Lewis in Nature No. 616. 355 Twin and mimetic crystals. 1888 J. J. H. Teall Brit. Petrogr. 440 Mimetic. Tschermak proposed to call those crystals mimetic which possess externally a high degree of symmetry, but are built up by polysynthetic twinning of crystals having a low grade of symmetry. Thus chabasite is termed a mimetic rhombohedral crystal. 1902 H. A. Miers Mineral. i. 94 In this way a crystal may simulate the symmetry of a higher system; such twinning is called ‘mimetic’, or imitative, and crystals so twinned are said to be ‘pseudo-symmetric’. b. Geology. Reflecting or influenced by a pre-existing structural feature or characteristic. ΚΠ 1931 F. E. Suess in Geol. Mag. 68 78 The parallel arrangement of biotite may have been derived from a former original parallel texture of any origin (sedimentary or tectonic, i.e. by foliation or cleavage) by mimetic crystallization (Abbildungskristallisation, Sander). 1938 E. F. Knopf & E. Ingerson Structural Petrology iii. 39 Crystallization that reproduces any pre-existent anisotropy, bedding, schistosity, or other structues, is called mimetic crytallization. This term was introduced by Suess, to translate the ‘Abbildungskristallisation’ of Sander. 1966 Contrib. Mineral. & Petrol. 12 223 Staurolite..shows peculiar radial sieve textures caused by mimetic crystallization after preexisting chloritoid rosettes. 1981 Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 138 475 Static mimetic recrystallization will be prompted, so that the fabric becomes metamorphic in appearance while retaining its bedding-parallel orientation. 1999 Earth & Planetary Sci. Lett. 167 255 The petrofabric of the weathered material is often characterized by a mimetic replacement of primary minerals that fully preserve the primary fabric. 7. Medicine. Designating, relating to, or affecting the superficial muscles of the face that surround the eyes, nose, and mouth and are innervated by the facial nerve. Cf. histrionic adj. 3, mimic adj. 4. ΚΠ 1885 J. Ross Handbk. Dis. Nerv. Syst. v. 365 Paralysis in the area of distribution of the seventh nerve (mimetic paralysis, hemiplegia and diplegia facialis, prosopalgia, Bell's paralysis). 1886 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. III. 7 The muscles of the face are divided into two grand divisions, the masticatory and the mimetic. 1941 A. Brodal Neurol. Anat. vii. 226 Quantitatively the motor..fibres, supplying the facial, mimetic musculature, form the most important part [of the facial nerve]. 1970 Dental Digest 76 347 (title) Corrective massage for atrophic masticatory and mimetic muscles. 2001 Ann. Plastic Surg. 46 301 Hypoglossal-facial nerve crossover and cross-facial nerve grafting are the best options if the mimetic muscles around the mouth are still viable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1631
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