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imitator|ˈɪmɪteɪtə(r)|
Also 6 imm-, 6–7 -our, -er.
[ad. F. imitateur (14th c.), ad. L. imitātōr-em, agent-noun f. imitārī to imitate.]
One who imitates, copies, or follows another; one who produces an imitation of anything. Also transf. of things.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. Pref. (1812) I. D ij, In semblable wyse dyd his imytator, noble duke Theseus. 1541Copland Galyen's Terapeut. 2 G iij b, Medycyne ought to be immytatour..of nature. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. xvii. 102 b, This they doe to shew themselves true immitatours of their Prophet. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. v. 565 Let your bright Virtues Imitators draw. a1832Bentham Man. Pol. Econ. Wks. 1843 III. 71 In new inventions, protection against imitators is not less necessary than in established manufactures protection against thieves. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. xiv. (1873) 376 We never find an imitator living remote from the form which it imitates.
Hence ˈimiˌtatorship, the office of an imitator.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie iii. viii. 218 When to seruile imitatorship Some spruce Athenian pen is prentized, Tis worse then Apish. |