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Mimetical, Mimetic adj.

Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.

(Biol.) Characterized by mimicry; applied to animals and plants; as, mimetic species; mimetic organisms. See Mimicry.

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Etymology of 'Mimetical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mimetical" Quotes from Famous Books

... the action of unconscious imitation, arising from constant contact, is capable of producing a remarkable change in the features, the acquired expression frequently tending to obliterate inherited family resemblances. According to Piderit, physiognomy is to be considered as a mimetic expression which has become habitual. The criminal type of face, so conspicuous in old offenders, is in many cases merely a prison type; it is not congenital; men who do not originally have it almost always acquire it after a prolonged period ...

— Crime and Its Causes • William Douglas Morrison

... treatment; here it is sufficient to say that when the planes and axes of twinning are planes and axes of symmetry, a twin would exhibit higher symmetry (but remain in the same crystal system) than the primary crystal; and, also, if a crystal approximates in its axial constants to a higher system, mimetic twinning would increase the approximation, and the crystal would ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various

... located in the breast of the spectator, are nevertheless embodied in the personality of the dancer, whose charm they constitute. Finally, the content of the dance may be further enriched through the use of symbolic costume and mimetic gestures, suggesting emotions like joy or love or grief, emotionally toned ideas like spring, or actions such as courtship. Now music, with its own rhythmical order and voluminous emotional content, has an obvious kinship with the ...

— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker

... I gaped at the mimetic miracle. It was then that the memory of the eight-year-old child's travesty of myself flashed through ...

— The Mountebank • William J. Locke