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mimically en · ADV

Etymology

From mimical + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a mimicking or imitative manner.
   • mimically represented emotions
   • 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 Grey Cap for a Green Head, page 129:
   • The script of Stroheim's Greed (1924), despite the encumbrance of inter-titles, demonstrates how much psychology could indeed be portrayed mimically and through a proliferation of perspectival close-ups and reaction shots; 2007, Christiane Schönfeld, Hermann Rasche, Processes of Transposition: German Literature and Film, page 128:
   • 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 Christian Religion - Volume 2, page 463:
2. In a manner that preserves the form and internal structure of an organic substance.
   • If carbonate grains are completely replaced, they may be replaced mimically or nonmimically . 2003, Sam Boggs, Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks, page 490:
   • The overgrowths have been mimically dolomitized. 1990, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, page 504:
   • Allochems and preexisting cements may be unreplaced, partially replaced, replaced mimically, or replaced nonmimically. 1987, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology - Volume 57, page 967:
   • 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:

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