单词 | resemblable |
释义 | † resemblableadj. Obsolete. Capable of being compared or likened; comparable, similar (to some person or thing); alike. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adjective] > to or with ylikeOE semblablec1374 shapelyc1374 resemblablea1393 resemblanta1393 visible1412 participantc1485 semblant1485 alikea1500 conformable1526 conform1553 semnable1651 similar1657 unopposite1825 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 950 Man of Soule resonable Is to an Angel resemblable. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 985 These arowis..Were all fyue on oon maneere And alle were they resemblable. a1456 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 627 (MED) Þou mayst beo resemblable founde..Lych þemperour, worthy Sygesmound. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lv. sig. Lviv He should haue the fayre Florence to whome the ymage was resemblable. 1585 J. Norden Sinfull Mans Solace f. 47v They doe but beguile themselues.., whose estaste [sic] is resemblable to the great and mightie trees of the earth yt men grub vp by the rootes. 1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. xv. 347 Are not those Acute and Disproportionate Particles, composing the visible Species, worthily resemblable to so many small Prickles or Lancets? 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 253 Thales Milesius was of opinion that the Earth floated and was aptly resemblable to a ship swimming in the Water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.a1393 |
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