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resemblant, a. and n.|rɪˈzɛmblənt|
[a. OF. resemblant (mod.F. ressemblant), pres. pple. of resembler to resemble: cf. semblant.]
A. adj.
1. Similar, having resemblance or likeness, to something. † Also const. of (quot. 1786).
1390Gower Conf. II. 85 Gold and selver..To whiche alle othre be degres Of the metalls ben acordant, And so thurgh kinde resemblant. 1571Digges Pantom., Math. Treat. xxv. Ff iv b, In sundry proportions and proprieties so agreable and resemblante to those regulare solides, whose names they beare. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 173 Some Painims did beare the like signe in Armes, very resemblant to the playne crosse. 1607J. Carpenter Plaine Mans Plough 14 That part of the land of Israel right resemblant to the field of the foolish. 1741–2Stackhouse Hist. Bible (1767) IV. vi. iv. 134 A passage very resemblant to what we read here. 1786Bigland Hist. Mon. & Gen. Coll. Gloucester I. 439 This Figure, which is very resemblant of those in the Temple Church. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 215 The figures in Mexican hieroglyphical paintings also afford objects very resemblant to those on our court cards. 1857Fraser's Mag. LVI. 599 In no work..is there such a gallery of portraits, and so resemblant to what they were in..the flesh.
2. Characterized by resemblance or similarity; similar, like.
1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. i. (1586) 31 The most naturall and resemblant picture of a Gentleman. 1797Philanthrope 263 Presenting to the eye the resemblant signs of its objects. 1835Southey Doctor lxxix. (1848) 178 Resemblant therefore as the features were, the dissimilitude of expression was more apparent. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 450 The single features are often strikingly resemblant.
3. Aiming at the production of resemblances.
1870Ruskin Aratra Pentel. iv. (1872) 117 The object of the great Resemblant Arts is..to resemble as closely as possible.
B. n.
†1. A semblance; a show. Obs. rare.
1470–85Malory Arthur xiv. vi. 649 The lyon sawe that he made no resemblaunt to fyghte with hym. 1546Langley tr. Pol. Verg. De Invent. vii. iii. 133 After his example other counterfeicted a resemblant of perfeccion namyng themselfes Hieronomians.
2. A counterpart, analogue. rare—1.
1893Sat. Rev. 25 Feb. 204/2 Forms or scraps or resemblants of it belong..to Lorch, Brandenburg, and Ispahan. |