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similitudinary

similitudinary adjective: involving or expressing similitude.

Adjective

similitudinary (comparative more similitudinary, superlative most similitudinary)

  1. (obsolete) Involving or expressing similitude.
    • this tearme ( hotchpot ) is but a tearme similitudinary , and is as much to say , as to put the lands in frankmarriage and the other lands in fee simple together1628, Edw[ard] Coke, The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for the Societe of Stationers, →OCLC

Forms of similitudinary

comparativemore similitudinary
superlativemost similitudinary

Origin of similitudinary

From Latin similitūdin- + -ary, from oblique stem of Latin similitūdō, from similis + -tūdō. By surface analysis, similitude + -ary.

Words formed from similitudinary

Questions about similitudinary

What does similitudinary mean?
Similitudinary means involving or expressing similitude.
What part of speech is similitudinary?
Similitudinary is an adjective.

Words near similitudinary in the dictionary

  1. similiters
  2. similitive
  3. similitude
  4. similitudes
  5. similitudinarily
  6. similitudinary
  7. simility
  8. similize
  9. similized
  10. similizes
  11. similizing

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