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Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.

One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon. Burke.

Imitative; mimetic. Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes To imitate her. Milton. Man is, of all creatures, the most mimical. W. Wotton.

An animal which imitates something else, in form or habits.

A nervous disease in which the patient involuntarily imitates the words or action of another.

e in number. [Obs.] An hundred thousand mo. Chaucer. Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it. Fuller.

To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry. To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death. Shak. Mocking marriage with a dame of France. Shak.

To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.

Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.

But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay.

Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling; as, a version near to the original.

Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.

rrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases. Carolina parrot (Zoöl.), the Carolina parrakeet. See Parrakeet. -- Night parrot, or Owl parrot. (Zoöl.) See Kakapo. -- Parrot coal, cannel coal; -- so called from the crackling an…

To imitate one's father. [R.]

imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine. I will be the pattern of all patience. Shak.

tell Sir P. Sidney. To perfection, in the highest degree of excellence; perfectly; as, to imitate a model to perfection.

One who imitates Pindar.

The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.

A brownish red approaching maroon, supposed to be imitated from the color of the wall panels of houses in Pompeii, which were decorated during the last age of the Republic.

To follow as an example; to imitate.