Auxilium:Thesaurus Anglicus/Imitatio

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Nomina

• imitation; copying &c v.; transcription; repetition, duplication, reduplication; quotation; reproduction; mimeograph, xerox™, facsimile; reprint, offprint.
• mockery, mimicry; simulation, impersonation, personation; representation; semblance; copy ; assimilation.
• paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature.
• plagiarism; forgery, counterfeit; celluloid.
• imitator, echo, † cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mockingbird, mime; copyist, copycat; plagiarist, pirate.

Verba

• imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo, reecho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel.
• mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act; represent; counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque.
• follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the footsteps of, follow in the wake of; take pattern by; follow suit, follow the example of; walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book, strike in with, follow suit; take after, model after; emulate.

Adiectiva

• imitated &c v.; mock, mimic; modelled after, molded on.
• paraphrastic; literal; imitative; secondhand; imitable; aping, apish, mimicking.

Adverbia

• literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim, sic, totidem verbis, word for word, mot a mot; exactly, precisely.

Elocutiones

• like master like man; like - but oh! how different! (Wordsworth); genius borrows nobly (Emerson); pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks (A. Coles); quotation confesses inferiority (Emerson); Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.