Meaning of mimical | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Pertaining to a mime, or jester.
   obsolete
2. Imitative; that mimics something else.
   archaic
3. Imitation; mock.
   obsolete

Examples

“If he can […] talk big fustian, insult, scorn, strut, contemn others, and use a little mimical and apish complement above the rest, he is a complete (Egregiam vero laudem), a well-qualified gentleman […]”

“[F]requent jot / Of his hard ſetting jade did ſo confound / The vvords that he by papyr-ſtealth had got, / That their loſt ſenſe the youngſter could not ſound, / Though he vvith mimical attention did abound.”

“Man is, of all creatures, the most mimical.”

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