resemblancen.1
/rᵻˈzɛmbl(ə)ns/, U.S. /rəˈzɛmbləns/, /riˈzɛmbləns/ 1. † c. Congruity, suitability. With of. Obsolete. rare.
a. The quality or fact of being like or similar; likeness or similarity in appearance, nature, etc. Frequently with to, between (formerly †of, †unto, and †with).
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun]
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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 1103 (MED) Libra..hath figure and resemblance Unto a man which a balance Berth in his hond.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 13v And saide it is merueile of aman, that may be in resemblaunce to god, and enforceth him self to be like to the beestys.
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) v. xi. f. cjv Of this feste [of the Assumption] thou hast fourme in the Ascencion of oure lorde Ihesu, for though the dede were nowhere nyghe so greete, yett is hit a manere of resemblaunce.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xiii. 52 So is enprynted in his propre mynde Euery tale with hole resemblaunce.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Ciiiv It is called muscle for his resemblaunce of a mouse, that in latyn hyght mus.
1598 R. Haydocke tr. G. P. Lomazzo Tracte Artes Paintinge i. 61 Anie other Goddesse, which hath any kinde of resemblance with the Earth.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 21 An image wherein there might be perceived some resemblance of Pallas.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxiv. 130 In this also, the Artificiall Man maintains his resemblance with the Naturall.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. viii. 57 The Ideas, produced in us by these Secundary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all.
1718 Free-thinker No. 53. 2 There is not the least Resemblance between Words and Colours.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lxii. 290 A vague comparison between two things, which have little or no resemblance to each other.
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 189 There are always general features of resemblance in the works of contemporary authors.
1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. vii. 222 The cap, being red, was thought to bear much resemblance to a cardinal's hat.
1906 W. A. Dutt Wild Life E. Anglia ii. 42 We called it the reel bird, on account of the resemblance of its monotonous note to the continuous whirr of the reel.
1950 Language 26 220 Loanshifts in general occur most readily when there is both phonetic and semantic resemblance between foreign and native terms.
2005 Fresh Nov. 29/1 A rib joint is ideal for roasting as it contains more meat and bears some resemblance to a lamb rack.
b. A degree, kind, or point of similarity (to, also †of, †with).
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > a similarity
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1532 R. Whittington tr. Erasmus De Ciuilitate Morun Puerilium sig. C.3v This maner cometh all of the carte and hath in a maner a resemblaunce of madnesse.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iv. iii. 194 The..Shepheard, of whose Crooke this Croysier hath a resemblance.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §676 In Birds; Kites and Kestrels haue a Resemblance with Hawkes.
1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular VII. 308 The pekan has so strong a resemblance to the pine weasel..that they may be regarded as varieties of these species.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge i. 230 Indeed it needed no very great stretch of fancy to detect in it other resemblances to humanity.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 4 These differences are accompanied by resemblances..to passages in other Platonic writings.
1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students xiv. 343 Tellurium is an element bearing a striking resemblance to selenium, but, at the same time, more metallic in its properties.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 14/2 Intent on finding universalizing resemblances among different kinds of mystical piety.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun]
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resemblance1715
idoneousness1727
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adaptitude1806
adaptment1831
1715 N. Dubois & J. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Archit. II. ii. xv. 30 The pillars are..coursly wrought, as seems to become a country house, to which nice and finish'd works bear not so true a resemblance as plain and natural ones.
d. Biology. Similarity in appearance between organisms of different species which results from convergence of function or from mimesis rather than indicating affinity (i.e. common ancestry); an instance of this.Not clearly distinct from senses 1a, 1b, but the term has tended to be used of analogical and not of homological similarity.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > similarity between different organisms
analogy1773
resemblance1838
affinity1840
isomorphism1902
synaposematism1907
1838 J. O. Westwood Entomologist's Text Bk. 49 Figures of these insects, exhibiting their resemblance, have been already given... Here there is no real affinity.
1862 H. W. Bates in Trans. Linn. Soc. 23 502 Mimetic analogies..are resemblances in external appearance, shape, and colours between members of widely distinct families.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 149/2 Mimetic resemblance is far commoner in the female than in the male, a fact readily explicable by selection, as suggested by Wallace.
1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) III. 1304/1 There is often such resemblance between plants which themselves possess no special protective apparatus and those that do as to suggest that ‘mimicry’ occurs among them in the same way as it does among insects.
1985 E. H. Colbert Wandering Lands & Animals (new ed.) x. 250 It is equally or even more probable that the resemblances between the borhyaenids and thylacines are the result of parallel evolution.
2006 T. D. Schowalter Insect Ecol. (ed. 2) iv. 115 A variety of insects..and other arthropods (especially spiders) benefit from resemblance to stinging Hymenoptera.
2. † b. A specific character or attribute. Obsolete. rare.
a. The external appearance or characteristic features of a person or thing. Chiefly with of. Now rare.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun] > characteristic
shapea1000
figure1340
resemblancea1393
phenomenology1964
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 2603 (MED) Of fowhles ther is on Which hath a face of blod and bon Lich to a man in resemblance.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 5890 (MED) Þis werme..hath þe resemblaunce Of a womman.
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton A iij His sone..did do make an ymage to the resemblaunce of hys fader.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. viii. sig. H3 Beautie, which was made to represent The great Creatours owne resemblance bright. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Richard III (1623) iii. vii. 11 His owne Bastardie, As being got, your Father then in France, and his resemblance, being not like the Duke.
1636 R. Basset tr. G. A. de Paoli Lives Rom. Emperors 339 Very able of body, of a beautifull resemblance.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 99 She..in her Face a Bull's Resemblance bears. View more context for this quotation
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 351. ¶7 [Satan] gliding through the Garden under the resemblance of a Mist.
1781 W. Cowper Charity 396 The soul, whose sight all-quickening grace renews, Takes the resemblance of the good she views.
1805 J. Whitehouse Jrnl. 8 June in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1997) XI. 191 This River Maria, has the resemblance of the Mesouri below the forks.
1870 B. Disraeli Lothair I. iv. 17 A garden..which..had the resemblance of a vast mosaic.
1946 Notes 3 138 The manuscript bears the resemblance of a first draft.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a characteristic
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spécialité1836
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middle name1905
discriminant1920
discriminator1943
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 19 It did refresh and reflect upon the King a most odious resemblance, as if he would be another King Richard.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia Ep. Ded. None of those Magnificent Images of Divinity, are equal to Your Majesty in the Divine Resemblances of Affability, Courtesie, Vigilance..and Constancy.
a. A representation or reproduction of a person or a thing; a likeness, an image. Obsolete.
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society > communication > representation > [noun] > a representation
form?c1225
figurea1340
likeness1340
print1340
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similitude?a1425
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medal1608
reflex1608
remonstrance1640
transcript1646
configurationa1676
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facsimile1801
personation1851
featuring1864
zoomorph1883
the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > that which resembles something else
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a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530
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simile1743
ditto1776
something of the sort1839
that or this sort of thing1848
assimilate1935
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation
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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 2424 (MED) Zenzis fond ferst the pourtreture And Promotheus the Sculpture; After what forme that hem thoghte, The resemblance anon thei wroghte.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vi. 970 (MED) Bochas..Thouhte he sauh a maneer resemblaunce Of a persone which stood in gret greuaunce.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 4 And sayd Sedechias, commonely euery resemblance delyteth other [Fr. communement toute chose quiert & veult son semblable.].
1555 R. Sherry Treat. Figures Gram. & Rhetorike f. liiiv A resemblance is taken of the fourme of a beaste: as yf you wil paint out a rauening, or poysonous man like to a crested dragon.
?1593 H. Chettle Kind-harts Dreame sig. B2v The next, by his sute of russet..and other tricks, I knew to be either the body or resemblaunce of Tarlton.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 812 A marble, vpon which is the resemblance of a man crosse-legged, all in male armour.
1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xv. 131 These quiet places are the resemblances of the serene regions above, and little models of heaven.
1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (xxii. 18) 426 If a Man see any where..waxen Resemblances, made and set either at their doors [etc.].
1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 376 His Soul; that noble Copy and Resemblance of its Maker.
1772 W. Jones Ess. Imit. Arts in Poems 214 What is an imitation, but a resemblance of some other thing?
1833 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 5) II. 235 We now understand how an admirable miniature resemblance of the objects before us is produced upon the retina of the eye.
1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 111 The mother treasures the resemblance of her lost son, and sheds tears over it in secret.
b. A symbol of something; a figure. Obsolete.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol
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1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Ei A countrefeiture and resemblaunce of thee true sacrifice.
1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) xlvii. f. 144v Oyle is a resemblaunce of the holy Ghost.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lvii. 128 We take not Baptisme nor the Eucharist for bare resemblances..of things absent.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (lxii. 3 Annot.) 311/1 So is [it] a fit resemblance to signify him that is ready to kill another.
1680 J. Owen Contin. Expos. Epist. Paul ix. 448 As unto its principal end and use; it was a figure and Resemblance of Heavenly things.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xv. 484 The sensual connexion was refined into a resemblance of the mystic union of Christ with his church.
c. An appearance or show of a quality, virtue, emotion, etc.; a demonstration of affection. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun] > of some quality
showing1493
resemblance1561
show1561
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > [noun] > judged by closeness to truth
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appearance?1531
semblance1548
probableness1561
resemblance1561
verisimilitude1603
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plausibility1649
vraisemblance1802
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. Pref. A certaine vaine resemblance of righteousnesse doeth abundantly content vs in stede of righteousnesse in dede.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vii. sig. Ii2v He ween'd that his affection entire She should aread; many resemblaunces To her he made, and many kinde remembraunces.
1670 N. Wanley tr. J. Lipsius Disc. of Constancy i. v. 28 From this impure mixture, is the birth of Opinion; which is no other than a vain shaddow, and resemblance of Reason.
d. A semblance; a seeming. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun]
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scheme1655
sensation1662
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plumage1707
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extrinsica1797
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the cut of one's jib1823
personnel1839
personal appearance1842
what-like1853
look-see1898
outwall1933
visuality1938
prosopon1947
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. ii. 188 Pro. But what likelihood is in that? Duke. Not a resemblance, but a certainty. View more context for this quotation
e. A person who resembles another; (one's) like. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > one who resembles another
the secondc1386
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likenessa1500
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resemblance1794
ringer1878
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. x. 263 I shall never meet with his resemblance.
1830 J. Hogg in Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 945/2 The laird was conscious that he had seen the beautiful apparition, and, moreover, that she was the very maiden, or the resemblance of her, who..was destined to be his.
a. A thing likened to another; an analogy; a simile. Obsolete.In quot. ?c1430: an example, an exemplum.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > [noun] > instance of
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resemblancec1405
resembling1482
congression1660
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > simile
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parabola1577
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > simile > use of
resemblancec1405
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 368 Been ther noone othere resemblaunces [v.rr. recemblauncis, resemblaunses] That ye may likne your proables to.
?c1430 J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree (Huntington) l. 639 I lye here, som-tyme crowned kynge, To al estates a trewe resemblaunce That wormes fode is fyne of owre lyuynge.
a1525 Contempl. Synnaris l. 1241, in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 230 In þi mynd mak a resemblans [Arund. remembrance] Gif þat a man [etc.].
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus Prol. sig. Biiv The gospell reherseth the lyfe of the prodigal son..by a knowen parable, that is to say, by a knowen comparison or resemblance.
1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. viii. 118 Consider those resemblances taken out of the holy Scripture, wherein that godly Father is frequent.
1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony iv. 77 For, (to use a homely resemblance) That our Food..may not cloy the Palate..the Cook finds such kinds..of Sawce, as..please the Palate.
1738 J. Holmes Art Rhetoric I. iii. i. 31 No Trope is more frequent or florid than the Metaphor; for it is a short and sprightly Resemblance or Similitude in One Word.
b. The action or fact of comparing or likening a person or thing to another, esp. as a rhetorical device; comparison; association; juxtaposition. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > [noun]
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proportion?a1425
resemblance?a1439
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a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. 3957 (MED) No damage..may be likned, bi no rassemblaunce, To feyned trouthe.
a1456 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 466 (MED) Þis worlde..Verrayly by ressemblaunce So as þe crabbe goþe forward.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 204 When we liken an humane person to another in countenaunce, stature, speach or other qualitie, it is not called bare resemblance, but resemblaunce by imagerie or pourtrait.
1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 105 Agnomination..is made by any resemblance, and as it were by the neighbourhood and nighness of words.
Phrases
P1. in resemblance of: in the likeness of; in imitation of; (occasionally) in accordance with. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [phrase] > in the same way as
in manner ofa1375
in resemblance ofa1393
at (also till, in) (the) likening ofa1500
somewhat as1872
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. 563 (MED) Thei for evere in remembrance Made a figure in resemblance Of him.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 1376 For nature as in resemblance Of face hem liketh so to clothe, That thei were of a suite both.
1590 Tarltons Newes out of Purgatorie sig. Bv Sith my appearance to thee is in resemblance of a spirite, thinke that I am as pleasant a goblin as the rest.
1592 A. Munday tr. E. de Maisonneufve Gerileon of Englande: 2nd Pt. ii. sig. C2 On the Creast thereof a bright shining Carbuncle, made in resemblance of the Sunne.
1657 J. Davies tr. H. D'Urfé Astrea I. 342 There remained no more but the erecting this Pole, in resemblance of a Columne.
1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 140 A Cuppola, which is that Dome or Hemisphærical Concave made in resemblance of the Heavens.
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 217 [Benzo] says, they wash their new born infants, in resemblance of the Mosaic law.
1826 S. W. Singer Dramatic Wks. Shakspeare III. 122 It was made in resemblance of a human figure holding in the one hand a shield and in the other a bag of sand.
1856 U.S. Mag. Aug. 101/1 It..is intended as an incarnation of Patriotism, made in resemblance of Washington because he was a patriot.
1993 M. Ripinsky-Naxon Nature of Shamanism 150 The tomb, as has been noted, was constructed in resemblance of the body of the Great Mother.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have (specific) appearance [verb (intransitive)] > make specific appearance
to make semblantc1230
showc1405
to make (a) countenance1470
countenance1486
to make semblancea1500
semble1542
to give a visage1549
to make resemblance1566
to set a countenance1600
figure1762
1566 J. Rastell Third Bk. beware of M. Iewel f. 44v After shee had taken the Sacramente into her handes, and making resemblaunce to Praye, shee might haue so handled the matter, that shee should haue seemed to haue put somwhat in her mouth.
1613 J. Hayward Lives III Normans 252 He made resemblance at the first, to be no lesse desirous of peace then the Duke: But afterwards..hee found euasions to auoyd all offers of agreement.
1634 Malory's Most Anc. Hist. Prince Arthur i. sig. Dd And therewith he made resemblance [a1470 Winch. Coll. 13 semblaunte] to strik off his head.
1684 tr. A. O. Exquemelin Bucaniers Amer. iii. viii. 102 These Animals would usually come every night to the Sides of our Ship, and make resemblance of climbing up into the Vessel.
Compounds
Objective, as resemblance-forming, etc.
ΚΠ
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xliv. 175 My resemblance-forming fancy immediately made it to be him.
1999 K. Kerby-Fulton in K. Kerby-Fulton & D. L. Despres Iconography & Professional Reader i. ii. 80 Medieval literary theory, then, had a conscious concern with resemblance-making techniques.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† resemblancen.2
Obsolete. rare.
Assembly.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals
lathingc897
sameningc950
gatheringc1000
ymongOE
droveOE
companya1275
routc1300
assembly1330
queleta1382
sembly1389
parliamenta1400
sankinga1400
concoursec1440
riotc1440
ensemblyc1500
unity1543
resorta1557
congress1639
resemblance1662
boorach1704
group1711
parade1722
assemblage1742
roll-up1861
agora1886
1662 T. Hobbes Mr Hobbes Considered 14 You were also assisting to the Resemblance of Divines that made the Directory.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
† resemblancev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To resemble.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > render similar to [verb (transitive)] > be like, resemble, or take after
to bear a resemblance toa1225
semblec1330
resemble1340
to look likec1390
representa1398
belikec1475
assemble1483
express1483
to take after ——1553
figure1567
assimilate1578
besib1596
imitate1601
resemblance1603
respect1604
favour1609
image1726
mirror1820
facsimile1839
turn after ——1848
picture1850
1603 H. Clapham Three Partes Salomon Song of Songs Expounded iii. xvii. 212 As woman was built out of his side, so herein hee resemblanced Christ, who hath made his Church Members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Ccc3v Such a noise..as resemblanceth at a great distance a clap of Thunder.
Derivatives
resemblancing adj.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adjective]
ylikeeOE
likeOE
anlikeOE
accordanta1325
of a (also one) mouldc1330
kindred1340
lichy1370
likelyc1384
alikea1393
ontinkela1400
evenly?c1400
similable?a1440
semble1449
of a sort1463
seemable1501
uniform1548
resembled1553
self-like1556
like-natured1566
resembling1573
kindlike1579
of the same, that, every, etc. feather1581
resemblant1581
marrow1585
similar1586
like-seeming1590
twin-like1599
connatural1601
similary1610
semblativea1616
otherlike1620
like-shaped1640
connate1641
homogeneous1641
consimilar1645
congenerous1646
resemblancing1652
congeniousa1656
congenerate1657
equaliform1660
congenial1669
similitive1678
symbolizant1685
synonymous1690
of akin1723
consimilary1736
like-sized1742
cogeneric1777
alike as a row of pins1785
congenerica1834
Siamese1833
congener1867
lak1881
sorty1885
homoeomorphic1902
homogenized1958
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 141 They cannot set their eye upon a tree, a leaf, a flower, a minerall, a stone..but they must needs be taking speciall notice of it..for..a resemblancing configuration, or a prodigious wonder.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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