mimically

In a mimicking or imitative manner.

Adverb

  1. In a mimicking or imitative manner.
    • mimically represented emotions
    • In the last place, he argues, that if it be lawful to baptize infants without understanding, baptism may be mimically and jocularly administered by boys in play. - 1844, Jean Calvin, John Allen, Institutes of the...
    • Be neither mimically in , nor ridiculously out of the fashion ; let your apparel be neat , not chargeable , fitted as well to your estate, years, and profession, as to your person. - 1900, James Puckle, The Club: Or, A...
  2. In a manner that preserves the form and internal structure of an organic substance.
    • Allochems and preexisting cements may be unreplaced, partially replaced, replaced mimically, or replaced nonmimically. - 1987, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology - Volume 57, page 967:
    • The overgrowths have been mimically dolomitized. - 1990, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, page 504:
    • The echinoid fragments are mimically replaced by silica. - 1994, Preliminary Analysis of Integrated Stratigraphic Data from the South Venice Corehole, Sarasota County, Florida, page 124:

Origin

From mimical + -ly.

Forms

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