Definition of imitate

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Imitate (v. t.) To resemble (another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object) in form, color, ornamentation, or instinctive habits, so as to derive an advantage thereby; sa, when a harmless snake imitates a venomous one in color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates, in color, one having secretion offensive to birds..

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Pursue :: Pursue (v. t.) To follow as an example; to imitate.
Semble :: Semble (a.) To imitate; to make a representation or likeness.
Ballade :: Ballade (n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy..
Imitated :: Imitated (imp. & p. p.) of Imitat.
Mimical :: Mimical (a.) Consisting of, or formed by, imitation; imitated; as, mimic gestures..
Apish :: Apish (a.) Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.
Travesty :: Travesty (v. t.) To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous..
Follow :: Follow (v. i.) To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.
Ape :: Ape (v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally..
Dalmatic :: Dalmatic (n.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia..
Pindarist :: Pindarist (n.) One who imitates Pindar.
Mimic :: Mimic (v. t.) To imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation.
Pattern :: Pattern (v. t.) To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate..
Resemble :: Resemble (v. t.) To counterfeit; to imitate.
Copier :: Copier (n.) An imitator; one who imitates an example; hence, a plagiarist..
Pattern :: Pattern (n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine..
Flower :: Flower (v. t.) To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk..
Copy :: Copy (v. i.) To make a copy or copies; to imitate.
Plashing :: Plashing (n.) The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc..
Adamite :: Adamite (n.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies..
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