well-imitatedadj.
/ˌwɛlˈɪmᵻteɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌwɛlˈɪməˌteɪdᵻd/ Skilfully or convincingly imitated.
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1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa iii. iii. lxxxv. 222 To make an artificial Bismuth so fair, and well imitated that it is almost impossible to distinguish it from the true.
1683 F. Willis et al. tr. Anacreon done into Eng. 21 The smiling Image seem'd alive. Pleas'd at the sight, I ask'd the price Of this well imitated piece.
1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health iii. 67 With the well-imitated fly to hook The eager trout.
1795 A. M. Mackenzie Myst. Elucidated II. vi. 99 With a well imitated indifference Isabella conceded to a request which [etc.].
1800 J. Dallaway Anecd. Arts Eng. i. iv. 60 The opportunity of inspecting some [castles], which owe to the taste of their present possessors a well imitated revival of their former splendour.
1890 Daily News 15 Feb. 6/4 A black fisher-net dress trimmed..with well-imitated mimosa.
1942 E. A. Mowrer & M. Rajchman Global War i. 16 The Japanese..set out as conquerors in their well-imitated steel warships and liners.
1995 D. A. Dooley Plain & Ordinary Things 150 Remaking the world in our own image through a well-imitated rhetorical posturing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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