semblative

English

Adjective

semblative (comparative more semblative, superlative most semblative)

1. (obsolete) Resembling.
   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 257, column 2:

     For they ſhall yet belye thy happy yeeres,
     That ſay thou art a man: Dianas lip
     Is not more ſmooth, and rubious: thy ſmall pipe
     Is as the maidens organ, ſhrill, and ſound,
     And all is ſemblatiue a womans part.

Noun

semblative (plural semblatives)

1. (grammar) A grammatical case that denotes the similarity of one entity to another.