different between similitude vs makedom

English

Etymology

From Old French

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??m?l?tju?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??m?l?tu?d/

Noun

similitude (countable and uncountable, plural similitudes)

1. (uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.
   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN

     Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes: the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
     Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.

2. (countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.
   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN

     Renaissance man thought in terms of 'similitudes': the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
     Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.

3. (countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.
   • 1852, Wilkie Collins, Nine O'Clock!

     If I was certain of anything in the world, I was certain that I had seen my brother in the study — nay, more, had touched him, — and equally certain that I had seen his double — his exact similitude, in the garden.

4. A parable or allegory.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XIII:

     And he spake many thynges to them in similitudes, sayinge: Beholde, the sower wentt forth to sowe, And as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side [...].

Derived terms

• antisimilitude

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin similit?dinem, accusative singular of similit?d? (“likeness, similitude”); from similis.

Noun

similitude f (plural similitudes)

1. similitude

Further reading

• “similitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From make +? -dom.

Noun

makedom (uncountable)

1. Form; figure; shape; similitude; constitution.
   • 1808, Henry William Weber, The battle of Floddon field:

     […] there were two of his guard, the one called Alexander Macculloch, and the other the Squire of Cleisch, which were men of makedom both like the king; […]

   • 1915, United States Military Academy, The Howitzer:

     He has held a life membership among the wearers of decorated sleeves, though he has shifted around considerably among the various strata of makedom.

   • 1978, Alan L. Mintz, George Eliot & the novel of vocation:

     The prospect of vocational achievement can lure the aspirant on with the same endowment of "makedom and fairness" as any woman's.

See also

• likeness