mimeticallyadv.
/mᵻˈmɛtᵻkli/, /mʌɪˈmɛtᵻkli/, U.S. /məˈmɛdək(ə)li/ In a mimetic or imitative manner; by or with regard to mimesis.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adverb]
imitably1616
mimically1623
mimetically1647
imitatively1879
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Coloss. ii. 21) The words of those impostours, which are here mimetically or by way of imitation related.
1795 J. Macknight New Literal Transl. Apostolical Epist. II. 574 The apostle writes mimetically here; personating the false teachers.
1857 H. Spencer in Westm. Rev. Apr. 464 The deeds of the god-king, chanted and mimetically represented in dances round his altar.
1888 Mind 13 456 Facial lines capable of being produced by repeated mimetic expression may also be hereditary (and therefore, in the author's view, not significant mimetically).
1936 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 66 94 The shaman himself is the sole or almost the sole performer, changing his voice mimetically to represent different persons, gods, and even animals.
1993 C. Tilley Interpretative Archaeol. 13 Narrative structures do not mimetically describe the world but rather redescribe it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
adv.1647- assertations
- assertative
- asserted
- asserter
- asserters
- assertible
- asserting
- assertion
- assertion-sign
- assertional
- assertionate
- assertionation
- assertions
- assertionsign
- assertive
- assertively
- assertiveness
- assertiveness training
- assertivenesses
- assertor
- assertorial
- assertorially
- assertoric
- assertorical
- assertorically