mimically

English

Etymology

From mimical +‎ -ly.

Adverb

mimically (comparative more mimically, superlative most mimically)

1. In a mimicking or imitative manner.

   mimically represented emotions

   • 1844, Jean Calvin, John Allen, Institutes of the Christian Religion - Volume 2, page 463:

     In the last place, he argues, that if it be lawful to baptize infants without understanding, baptism may be mimically and jocularly administered by boys in play.

   • 1900, James Puckle, The Club: Or, A Grey Cap for a Green Head, page 129:

     Be neither mimically in , nor ridiculously out of the fashion ; let your apparel be neat , not chargeable , fitted as well to your estate, years, and profession, as to your person.

   • 2007, Christiane Schönfeld, Hermann Rasche, Processes of Transposition: German Literature and Film, page 128:

     The script of Stroheim's Greed (1924), despite the encumbrance of inter-titles, demonstrates how much psychology could indeed be portrayed mimically and through a proliferation of perspectival close-ups and reaction shots;

2. In a manner that preserves the form and internal structure of an organic substance.
   • 1987, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology - Volume 57, page 967:

     Allochems and preexisting cements may be unreplaced, partially replaced, replaced mimically, or replaced nonmimically.

   • 1990, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, page 504:

     The overgrowths have been mimically dolomitized.

   • 1994, Preliminary Analysis of Integrated Stratigraphic Data from the South Venice Corehole, Sarasota County, Florida, page 124:

     The echinoid fragments are mimically replaced by silica.

   • 2003, Sam Boggs, Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks, page 490:

     If carbonate grains are completely replaced, they may be replaced mimically or nonmimically .

References

• “mimically”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.