mimically

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English

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Etymology

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From mimical +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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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 .

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