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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SIMIL'ITUDE, n. [L. similitudo.]
1. Likeness; resemblance; likeness in nature, qualities of appearance; as similitude of substance. Let us make man in our image, man in our similitude. Fate some future bard shall join in sad similitude of griefs to mine.
2. Comparison; simile. Tasso, in his similitude, never departed from the woods. [See Simile.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things; "man created God in his own likeness" [syn: likeness, alikeness, similitude] [ant: dissimilitude, unlikeness]
2: a duplicate copy [syn: counterpart, similitude, twin]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, allegory, analogy, from Latin similitudo resemblance, from similis Date: 14th century 1. a. counterpart, double b. a visible likeness ; image 2. an imaginative comparison ; simile 3. a. correspondence in kind or quality b. a point of comparison Synonyms: see likeness

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the likeness, guise, or outward appearance of a thing or person. 2 a comparison or the expression of a comparison. 3 archaic a counterpart or facsimile. Etymology: ME f. OF similitude or L similitudo (as SIMILE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Similitude Si*mil"i*tude, n. [F. similitude, L. similitudo, from similis similar. See Similar.] 1. The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance. --Chaucer. Let us make now man in our image, man In our similitude. --Milton. If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of griefs to mine. --Pope. 2. The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile. Tasso, in his similitudes, never departed from the woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from the country. --Dryden. 3. That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile. Man should wed his similitude. --Chaucer.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

si-mil'-i-tud: In the King James Version means either "an exact facsimile" (Ps 106:20 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "likeness"; Ro 5:14, etc.), or else "the form itself" (Nu 12:8; De 4:12,15,16 for temunah, "form" (so the Revised Version (British and American))); compare LIKENESS. the English Revised Version has retained the word in 2Ch 4:3; Da 10:16 (the American Standard Revised Version "likeness"), while the English Revised Version and the American Standard Revised Version have used "similitudes" in Ho 12:10 (damah, "be like"). The meaning is "I have inspired the prophets to speak parables."

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Likeness, resemblance, image. 2. Simile, comparison, metaphor.

Moby Thesaurus

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