similen.

Brit.

/ˈsɪmᵻli/, U.S.

/ˈsɪmᵻli/

Forms:

α. Middle English– simile, 1500s symyle, 1700s similé.

β. 1500s–1600s similie, 1500s–1800s simily, 1900s– similies (plural, nonstandard).

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin simile.

Etymology: < classical Latin simile comparison, parallel case, image, likeness, resemblance, use as noun of neuter of similis like < the same Indo-European base as same adj. Compare similitude n.The β. forms probably show a similar development to query n.²

a. A comparison of one thing with another, usually in regard to a particular attribute, esp. as a figure of speech.In later use often understood to refer specifically to expressions in which the comparison is made using the word as or like, such as (as) brave as a lion, a face like a mask, etc. Cf. metaphor n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > [noun] > instance of

likenessc1175

similec1400

similitudec1400

resemblancec1405

resembling1482

congression1660

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > simile

ylikenessOE

likenessc1175

comparisona1382

similec1400

similitudec1400

resemblancec1405

analogya1536

likening1573

parabola1577

icon1589

parabole1828

α.

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xx. l. 160 By this simile..ich seo an euidence, That ho so synegeþ in þe seynt espirit asoillede [emended in ed. to asoilled] worth he neuere.

1548 R. Crowley Confut. N. Shaxton i. sig. Dii I wyl shew you a lyke thyng to proue whether you can learne to vnderstand this place of scripture by a simile.

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. K4^v Stufft with pretie Similes and farre fetcht Metaphores.

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. B4^v No Simile Is pretious, choyce, or elegant enough.

1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) i. ix. 26 Playing much upon the simile, or illustrative argumentation.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No 303 ¶20 Milton..never quits his Simile till it rises to some very great Idea, which [etc.].

1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 54 There motley Images her fancy strike, Figures ill-pair'd, and Similes unlike.

1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 285 A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject.

1813 Cambrian Visitor May 236 Dead as a door nail, a proverbial simile, is thus satisfactorily explained by Steevens, in a note to Shakespeare's 2d Part of Henry 4th.

1858 J. Doran Hist. Court Fools 167 Some of his similes are drawn from his profession.

1873 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London 72 That was aptly illustrated by the simile of the infant that can only cry.

1907 Fortn. Rev. 2 Sept. 391 Your brains seem to act—pardon the simile—like infernal machines.

1965 R. Priestley & T. H. Wisdom Good Driving iii. 28 The gas pedal can be likened to the wick of an oil lamp. Turn it up and you get more light... Indeed it is a simile much used by motor cyclists.

1991 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army (rev. ed.) v. 62 They relish describing her as ‘really rough’, accompanied by some disobliging simile—an old favourite used to be ‘She's got a face like a grenade range’.

2016 Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) (Nexis) 21 Apr. 6 It even comes with a simile for the ages: ‘This street is as cold as a corporate lawsuit.’

β. 1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 124 Why sayde ye before in your last similies, that he coulde not be a principall gouernour of any ciuill matters excepte he had bene a doer of the actions??1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 38 I promise you this is a proper similie verye aptly applied by S. Ambrose.a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 45 Did he not moralize this spectacle?.. O yes, into a thousand similies.1636 W. Davenant Platonick Lovers ii. i. sig.C4 An excellent Similie for a Painter, That would draw a good face.1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. ix. 386 The same Simily is made use of in Terence.1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. ii. 11 Even my similies,..my illustrations, my metaphors, are erudite.1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. I. xv. 275 The simily is imperfect because the fact is untrue.1864 A. J. Evans Macaria xxii. 106 Irene, you deal in similies and vague generalities.1902 Washington Post 28 Sept. 19/4 Society at the Capital has often been likened to a kaleidoscope and the similie is excellent.1921 Town Planning Rev. 9 142 It will not advance his cause if his similies are misleading and philosophically unsound.2011 Hist. Relig. 50 401 The Jesuit proclaimed the Gospel through the use of similies in his first Tibetan work.

b. As a mass noun: the use of similes (sense 1a); language characterized by the making of comparisons.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > [noun]

evennessOE

eveningc1225

collationc1374

respitea1382

comparison1393

proportion?a1425

resemblance?a1439

comparation1483

comparing1489

commensuration1526

parificationc1537

conferring1561

paragon1590

counter-scale1645

counterbalance1647

collibration1656

confrontation1665

similituding1681

simile1682

confronting1887

1682 Duke of Buckingham Ess. Poetry 199 They sigh in simile and die in Rhyme.

1707 M. Prior Simile 4 'Tis but by way of Simile.

a1721 M. Prior Ess. & Dialogues of Dead: Lock & Montaigne in Dialogues of Dead & Other Wks. (1907) 233 Simile is the very Algebra of Discourse.

1845 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Misc. 4 165 We cannot be thought to draw an unwarrantable conclusion in pronouncing this use of the lion in simile an Orientalism.

1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 165 How would he have run him up and down the gamut of simile!

1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise ii. 42 Their talk was stiff with simile.

2001 S. Wolosky Art Poetry iii. 29 In simile, the comparison is made explicit. A simile is a comparison that tells you it is a comparison.

a. Likeness, resemblance; similarity. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun]

anlikenessOE

ylikenessOE

likenessa1250

likeliheada1393

resemblancea1393

likeliness?a1425

similitudec1425

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semblablenessc1550

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connaturality1621

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connaturalnessa1628

reasemblance1638

consimilarity1658

similariness1669

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consimility1680

kindredship1733

family likeness1759

family resemblance1785

cognateness1816

feel1892

1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Similie,..likenes, or resemblance.

1613 J. Davies Muses-teares sig. A3^v The Simile twixt God and Man is such, That God is said to be immortall Man.

1652 J. Gage Christian Sodality 189 The simile between a Christians life, and those who runn a race.

1684 T. Tryon Country-man's Compan. 116 Their violent Inclinations after Blood, and fierce strong Liquors, which two things have a simile to, and with each other.

1707 Nocturnal Revels I. 46 If there were any Simile between their Spirits, or if there was a hearty Love and Affection between them whilst they liv'd.

1859 Trans. State Agric. Soc. Mich. 1857 569 To give satisfaction to all exhibitors, saying nothing about the close simile that many of the articles partake of.

1917 Automotive Industries 20 Dec. 1120/1 The simile between past history and the subject under consideration is possibly greater than is generally appreciated.

2001 Irish Times (Nexis) 12 May 17 There is a strong simile between the Pope praying at the Baptist's tomb and the story of Paul in the Acropolis.

†b. The image or likeness of a thing. Cf. facsimile n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > that which resembles something else

swilkc1175

anlike1340

liking1340

likeningc1350

semblancec1374

resemblancea1393

likenessa1400

semblablec1400

similitudinary?a1425

like1440

assemblable?1530

a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530

resembler1570

fellowa1616

remonstrance1640

simile1743

ditto1776

something of the sort1839

that or this sort of thing1848

assimilate1935

1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 151 Everything delighteth to produce its own Simile.

1892 J. W. Riley Green Fields & Running Brooks 17 A thrill that hurries me along In faulty similes of childish skips.

3. Something regarded as symbolically representing or suggestive of something else; = metaphor n. 2. Frequently with for, of.In later use often regarded as erroneous by usage writers.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol

tokeningc888

tokenc890

print1340

bannerc1380

signingc1390

signala1393

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character1569

picture1580

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attribute1600

symbolization1603

allegory1606

emblema1616

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metaphor1836

presentation1866

symbolisms1876

ideogram1897

picture message1912

figura1959

1682 Love given O're 8 No more the Wind, the faithless Wind, shall be A Simile for their Inconstancy.

1798 E. Wallace Universal Alarm xix. 308 What Simile of the general Resurrection..could be found throughout universal nature, more applicate than this visible Display of the Power of God.

1804 Monthly Mirror May 312 Thus is man's life a simile of all that is grand.

1854 Cottage Gardener 23 Mar. 474/1 A perfume so precious, and of such imagined origin..may well have been selected by the prophet as a simile for the tents of Israel.

1910 Grits & Grinds Dec. 3/1 Ever since the beginning of written thought, grinding has been used as a simile for slowness, wear and worry.

1979 W. Zander Distances iii. 36 Held on a gloved fist, The falcon was a simile for my lord.

2014 S. A. Wiggins Weathering Psalms 139 The dew of Hermon is a simile for this concord.

Compounds

C1. General use as a modifier. Also with agent nouns, forming nouns in which simile expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in simile-maker, simile-monger.

ΚΠ

1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer ii. 16 I cou'd not..sit to a vain young Simile-maker, tho' he flatter'd me.

1692 C. Gildon Post-boy rob'd of his Mail I. iii. 31 He's but a meet simile Monger at best, and his Wit lies in a Habit, and Jingle, without any design.

1781 Town & Country Mag. Apr. 177/1 Colonel Witwou'd is, perhaps, one of the greatest simile mongers in the three kingdoms.

1889 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. 516/2 The conversion of the polyonymic, simile name into one which is mononymic and metaphorical.

1911 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 31 64 The primary word in a comparison attracts to its own case-form the secondary, or simile word.

1986 Oxf. Rev. Educ. 12 46 Both researchers assumed total competence in simile use and merely exploited its figurative power as a tool for probing pupils' scientific understanding.

2006 Weekly Standard (Washington, D.C.) 3 July 31/2 The first-person narrative approximates the style and voice of Chandler's Philip Marlowe as successfully as any of that simile master's imitators.

C2.

simile aria n. (in opera) an aria in which the singer's situation is compared to some natural phenomenon or activity.

ΚΠ

1946 S. Poladian Handel as Opera Composer (Ph.D. diss., Cornell Univ.) 194 Another instance of a siciliano with descriptive accompaniment we find in the simile aria ‘Se povero il ruscelo’ of Massimo in [the opera] Ezio.

1955 Times 25 Jan. 2/7 A vigorous simile aria with a poignant middle section.

1986 Early Music 14 382/1 The chalumeau represents faithfulness in a simile aria that speaks of the turtle-dove.

2010 Jrnl. Amer. Musicological Soc. 63 147 ‘Va tacito e nascosto’, a simile aria in Giulio Cesare, remains one of the most popular numbers in the score.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	simile
释义	similen. Brit. /ˈsɪmᵻli/, U.S. /ˈsɪmᵻli/ Forms: α. Middle English– simile, 1500s symyle, 1700s similé. β. 1500s–1600s similie, 1500s–1800s simily, 1900s– similies (plural, nonstandard). Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin simile. Etymology: < classical Latin simile comparison, parallel case, image, likeness, resemblance, use as noun of neuter of similis like < the same Indo-European base as same adj. Compare similitude n.The β. forms probably show a similar development to query n.² 1. a. A comparison of one thing with another, usually in regard to a particular attribute, esp. as a figure of speech.In later use often understood to refer specifically to expressions in which the comparison is made using the word as or like, such as (as) brave as a lion, a face like a mask, etc. Cf. metaphor n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > [noun] > instance of likenessc1175 similec1400 similitudec1400 resemblancec1405 resembling1482 congression1660 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > simile ylikenessOE likenessc1175 comparisona1382 similec1400 similitudec1400 resemblancec1405 analogya1536 likening1573 parabola1577 icon1589 parabole1828 α. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xx. l. 160 By this simile..ich seo an euidence, That ho so synegeþ in þe seynt espirit asoillede [emended in ed. to asoilled] worth he neuere. 1548 R. Crowley Confut. N. Shaxton i. sig. Dii I wyl shew you a lyke thyng to proue whether you can learne to vnderstand this place of scripture by a simile. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. K4^v Stufft with pretie Similes and farre fetcht Metaphores. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. B4^v No Simile Is pretious, choyce, or elegant enough. 1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) i. ix. 26 Playing much upon the simile, or illustrative argumentation. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No 303 ¶20 Milton..never quits his Simile till it rises to some very great Idea, which [etc.]. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 54 There motley Images her fancy strike, Figures ill-pair'd, and Similes unlike. 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 285 A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject. 1813 Cambrian Visitor May 236 Dead as a door nail, a proverbial simile, is thus satisfactorily explained by Steevens, in a note to Shakespeare's 2d Part of Henry 4th. 1858 J. Doran Hist. Court Fools 167 Some of his similes are drawn from his profession. 1873 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London 72 That was aptly illustrated by the simile of the infant that can only cry. 1907 Fortn. Rev. 2 Sept. 391 Your brains seem to act—pardon the simile—like infernal machines. 1965 R. Priestley & T. H. Wisdom Good Driving iii. 28 The gas pedal can be likened to the wick of an oil lamp. Turn it up and you get more light... Indeed it is a simile much used by motor cyclists. 1991 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army (rev. ed.) v. 62 They relish describing her as ‘really rough’, accompanied by some disobliging simile—an old favourite used to be ‘She's got a face like a grenade range’. 2016 Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) (Nexis) 21 Apr. 6 It even comes with a simile for the ages: ‘This street is as cold as a corporate lawsuit.’ β. 1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 124 Why sayde ye before in your last similies, that he coulde not be a principall gouernour of any ciuill matters excepte he had bene a doer of the actions??1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 38 I promise you this is a proper similie verye aptly applied by S. Ambrose.a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 45 Did he not moralize this spectacle?.. O yes, into a thousand similies.1636 W. Davenant Platonick Lovers ii. i. sig.C4 An excellent Similie for a Painter, That would draw a good face.1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. ix. 386 The same Simily is made use of in Terence.1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. ii. 11 Even my similies,..my illustrations, my metaphors, are erudite.1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. I. xv. 275 The simily is imperfect because the fact is untrue.1864 A. J. Evans Macaria xxii. 106 Irene, you deal in similies and vague generalities.1902 Washington Post 28 Sept. 19/4 Society at the Capital has often been likened to a kaleidoscope and the similie is excellent.1921 Town Planning Rev. 9 142 It will not advance his cause if his similies are misleading and philosophically unsound.2011 Hist. Relig. 50 401 The Jesuit proclaimed the Gospel through the use of similies in his first Tibetan work. b. As a mass noun: the use of similes (sense 1a); language characterized by the making of comparisons. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > [noun] evennessOE eveningc1225 collationc1374 respitea1382 comparison1393 proportion?a1425 resemblance?a1439 comparation1483 comparing1489 commensuration1526 parificationc1537 conferring1561 paragon1590 counter-scale1645 counterbalance1647 collibration1656 confrontation1665 similituding1681 simile1682 confronting1887 1682 Duke of Buckingham Ess. Poetry 199 They sigh in simile and die in Rhyme. 1707 M. Prior Simile 4 'Tis but by way of Simile. a1721 M. Prior Ess. & Dialogues of Dead: Lock & Montaigne in Dialogues of Dead & Other Wks. (1907) 233 Simile is the very Algebra of Discourse. 1845 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Misc. 4 165 We cannot be thought to draw an unwarrantable conclusion in pronouncing this use of the lion in simile an Orientalism. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 165 How would he have run him up and down the gamut of simile! 1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise ii. 42 Their talk was stiff with simile. 2001 S. Wolosky Art Poetry iii. 29 In simile, the comparison is made explicit. A simile is a comparison that tells you it is a comparison. 2. a. Likeness, resemblance; similarity. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] anlikenessOE ylikenessOE likenessa1250 likeliheada1393 resemblancea1393 likeliness?a1425 similitudec1425 semblingc1440 alikenessc1450 assemblance1485 agreement1495 likelihood1495 agreeance1525 analogy1542 simility1543 semblablenessc1550 semblance1576 nearness1577 vicinity1594 simile1604 assimilation1605 consimilitude1610 parity1612 bly1615 similarity1615 connaturality1621 similiancy1622 connaturalnessa1628 reasemblance1638 consimilarity1658 similariness1669 similarness1670 consimility1680 kindredship1733 family likeness1759 family resemblance1785 cognateness1816 feel1892 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Similie,..likenes, or resemblance. 1613 J. Davies Muses-teares sig. A3^v The Simile twixt God and Man is such, That God is said to be immortall Man. 1652 J. Gage Christian Sodality 189 The simile between a Christians life, and those who runn a race. 1684 T. Tryon Country-man's Compan. 116 Their violent Inclinations after Blood, and fierce strong Liquors, which two things have a simile to, and with each other. 1707 Nocturnal Revels I. 46 If there were any Simile between their Spirits, or if there was a hearty Love and Affection between them whilst they liv'd. 1859 Trans. State Agric. Soc. Mich. 1857 569 To give satisfaction to all exhibitors, saying nothing about the close simile that many of the articles partake of. 1917 Automotive Industries 20 Dec. 1120/1 The simile between past history and the subject under consideration is possibly greater than is generally appreciated. 2001 Irish Times (Nexis) 12 May 17 There is a strong simile between the Pope praying at the Baptist's tomb and the story of Paul in the Acropolis. †b. The image or likeness of a thing. Cf. facsimile n. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > that which resembles something else swilkc1175 anlike1340 liking1340 likeningc1350 semblancec1374 resemblancea1393 likenessa1400 semblablec1400 similitudinary?a1425 like1440 assemblable?1530 a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530 resembler1570 fellowa1616 remonstrance1640 simile1743 ditto1776 something of the sort1839 that or this sort of thing1848 assimilate1935 1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 151 Everything delighteth to produce its own Simile. 1892 J. W. Riley Green Fields & Running Brooks 17 A thrill that hurries me along In faulty similes of childish skips. 3. Something regarded as symbolically representing or suggestive of something else; = metaphor n. 2. Frequently with for, of.In later use often regarded as erroneous by usage writers. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol tokeningc888 tokenc890 print1340 bannerc1380 signingc1390 signala1393 signc1400 similitude?c1400 type?a1500 sacrament1534 resemblance1548 adumbration1552 character1569 picture1580 symbol1590 moral?1594 attribute1600 symbolization1603 allegory1606 emblema1616 hieroglyph1646 simile1682 documentor1684 symptoma1687 monument1728 metaphor1836 presentation1866 symbolisms1876 ideogram1897 picture message1912 figura1959 1682 Love given O're 8 No more the Wind, the faithless Wind, shall be A Simile for their Inconstancy. 1798 E. Wallace Universal Alarm xix. 308 What Simile of the general Resurrection..could be found throughout universal nature, more applicate than this visible Display of the Power of God. 1804 Monthly Mirror May 312 Thus is man's life a simile of all that is grand. 1854 Cottage Gardener 23 Mar. 474/1 A perfume so precious, and of such imagined origin..may well have been selected by the prophet as a simile for the tents of Israel. 1910 Grits & Grinds Dec. 3/1 Ever since the beginning of written thought, grinding has been used as a simile for slowness, wear and worry. 1979 W. Zander Distances iii. 36 Held on a gloved fist, The falcon was a simile for my lord. 2014 S. A. Wiggins Weathering Psalms 139 The dew of Hermon is a simile for this concord. Compounds C1. General use as a modifier. Also with agent nouns, forming nouns in which simile expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in simile-maker, simile-monger. ΚΠ 1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer ii. 16 I cou'd not..sit to a vain young Simile-maker, tho' he flatter'd me. 1692 C. Gildon Post-boy rob'd of his Mail I. iii. 31 He's but a meet simile Monger at best, and his Wit lies in a Habit, and Jingle, without any design. 1781 Town & Country Mag. Apr. 177/1 Colonel Witwou'd is, perhaps, one of the greatest simile mongers in the three kingdoms. 1889 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. 516/2 The conversion of the polyonymic, simile name into one which is mononymic and metaphorical. 1911 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 31 64 The primary word in a comparison attracts to its own case-form the secondary, or simile word. 1986 Oxf. Rev. Educ. 12 46 Both researchers assumed total competence in simile use and merely exploited its figurative power as a tool for probing pupils' scientific understanding. 2006 Weekly Standard (Washington, D.C.) 3 July 31/2 The first-person narrative approximates the style and voice of Chandler's Philip Marlowe as successfully as any of that simile master's imitators. C2. simile aria n. (in opera) an aria in which the singer's situation is compared to some natural phenomenon or activity. ΚΠ 1946 S. Poladian Handel as Opera Composer (Ph.D. diss., Cornell Univ.) 194 Another instance of a siciliano with descriptive accompaniment we find in the simile aria ‘Se povero il ruscelo’ of Massimo in [the opera] Ezio. 1955 Times 25 Jan. 2/7 A vigorous simile aria with a poignant middle section. 1986 Early Music 14 382/1 The chalumeau represents faithfulness in a simile aria that speaks of the turtle-dove. 2010 Jrnl. Amer. Musicological Soc. 63 147 ‘Va tacito e nascosto’, a simile aria in Giulio Cesare, remains one of the most popular numbers in the score. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). similev. Brit. /ˈsɪmᵻli/, U.S. /ˈsɪmᵻli/ Forms: 1600s– simile, 1600s– similed (past tense and past participle), 1800s– similied (past tense and past participle). Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: simile n. Etymology: < simile n. Compare earlier similize v.The spelling similied reflects the pronunciation. transitive. To express or suggest by means of a simile. Also: to liken to. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > express with figure of meaning [verb (transitive)] > express by similes similize1646 simile1647 1647 C. Gerbier Modest Cavallieres Advice 3 I trust the generall disposition of an honest hearted Cavalier is not to waver, that is to simile those persons which are light of love, who..prefer the change of an adulterous bed, before the marryed. 1670 W. Blake Ladies Charity School-house Roll of Highgate 44 Christ is similed in these glorious Beams of his Beauty; for the Sun is no more to Christ than one Beam or Ray. 1727 P. Longueville Hermit 219 Having similed every different Part, he proceeds in the Representation thereof. 1858 Mrs. F. Hall Knave of Hearts I. xv. 229 Like the vase so beautifully similied by Moore, the scent of the roses with which her path that night seemed strewed, would hang round it still. 1870 Baltimore Med. Jrnl. Mar. 150 It [sc. a pain] was constantly similed to a red hot wire thrust through the right temple. 1925 W. Beebe Jungle Days iv. 72 The living leaf—both singly and in foliage mass—has been epitaphed, eulogized, sung, praised and similed for centuries. 1972 G. Jones Kings, Beasts, & Heroes ii. i. 75 We are told the colour of her hair and hands, her flesh and bosom, but she stays cool to view as..a wax doll. A clean doll, admittedly... And one most nobly similied. 2007 W. J. Cobb To Break of Dawn iii. 98 Vintage LL similied himself to a heavyweight champ saying ‘I'm like Tyson, icin'...’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). simileadv. Brit. /ˈsɪmᵻleɪ/, U.S. /ˈsɪmᵻˌleɪ/ Forms: 1800s– simile, 1800s– simili (see note at definition). Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian simile. Etymology: < Italian simile similar (early 14th cent.; also as a musical direction) < classical Latin similis (see simile n.).In plural form simili after the Italian plural form (see note at definition). Music. In the same way.Used in a musical score to indicate that a manner of performance which has been indicated explicitly for a particular bar, group of notes, etc., is to be likewise observed in the music which follows. The Italian plural form simili is sometimes used when there is more than one bar, group of notes, etc., over which the manner is to be continued. ΚΠ 1834 W. S. Porter Musical Cycl. 352 Simile, in a similar manner; this word and its plural simili, is placed over passages which require a similar manner of bowing or fingering. 1876 C. Engel Musical Myths & Facts I. 110 Three rests for the first violins have been inserted by the engraver, instead of three simile-signs..evident from the sudden interruption of the flow of the triplet accompaniment. 1978 Stud. in Music (Univ. Western Austral.) No. 12. 78 Donington might argue that..Corelli would want his players to..play the over-dotted rhythm as written in measures 1 and 3, and then continue the movement simile. 2012 Music Perception 29 377/1 Musical notation itself is rife with symbols that instruct players to repeat—from the repeat sign to the tremolo to simile marks and da capo. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1400v.1647adv.1834
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