Emily Dickinson Lexicon — IM'I-TA-BLE

Dictionary: IM'I-TA-BLE – IM-MAR-CES'SI-BLE

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IM'I-TA-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. imitabilis. See Imitate.]

That may be imitated or copied. Let us follow our Savior in all his imitable conduct and traits of character. There are some works of the ancients that are hardly imitable. The dignified style of Johnson is scarcely imitable.
Worthy of imitation.

IM-I'TATE, v.i. [Fr. imiter; Sp. and Port. imitar; It. imitare; L. imitor; allied perhaps to Gr. ὁμος, similar, equal.]

To follow in manners; to copy in form, color or quality. We imitate another in dress or manners; we imitate a statue, a painting, a sound, an action, when we make or do that which resembles it. We should seek the best models to imitate, and in morals and piety, it is our duty to imitate the example of our Savior. But as we can not always make an exact similitude of the original, hence,
To attempt or endeavor to copy or resemble; as, to imitate the colors of the rainbow, or any of the beauties of nature. Cicero appears to have imitated the Greek orators.
To counterfeit. This hand appear'd a shining sword to wield, / And that sustain'd an imitated shield. Dryden.
To pursue the course of a composition, so as to use like images and examples. Johnson. Gay

Followed; copied.

Following in manner; copying.

IM-I-TA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. imitatio; imitor, to imitate.]

The act of following in manner, or of copying in form; the act of making the similitude of any thing, or of attempting a resemblance. By the imitation of bad men or of evil examples, we are apt to contract vicious habits. In the imitation of natural forms and colors, we are often unsuccessful. Imitation in music, says Rousseau, is a reiteration of the same air, or of one which is similar, in several parts where it is repeated by one after the other, either in unison, or at the distance of a fourth, a fifth, a third, or any interval whatever. Imitation in oratory, is an endeavor to resemble a speaker or writer in the qualities which we propose to ourselves as patterns. Encyc.
That which is made or produced as a copy; likeness; resemblance. We say, a thing is a true imitation of nature.
A method of translating, in which modern examples and illustrations are used for ancient, or domestic for foreign, or in which the translator not only varies the words and sense, but forsakes them as he sees occasion. Johnson. Dryden.

Inclined to follow in manner; as, man is an imitative being.
Aiming at resemblance; that is used in the business of forming resemblances. Painting is an imitative art.
Formed after a model, pattern or original. This temple, less in form, with equal grace, Was imitative of the first in Thrace. Dryden. Imitative music, is that which is intended to resemble some natural operation, the passions and the like. Busby.

In an imitative manner.

The office or state of an imitator. Marston.

IM-MAC'U-LATE, a. [L. immaculatus; in and macula, a spot.]

Spotless; pure; unstained; undefiled; without blemish; as, immaculate reputation; immaculate thoughts. Our Savior has set us an example of an immaculate life and conversation.
Pure; limpid; not tinged with impure matter; as, an immaculate fountain. Shak. Immaculate conception, the conception of our Savior by the Virgin Mary.

With spotless purity.

Spotless purity.

Wearing mail or armor. Browne.

IM-MAL'LE-A-BLE, a. [in and malleable.]

Not malleable; that can not be extended by hammering. Med. Repos.

IM-MAN'A-CLE, v.t. [in and manacle.]

To put manacles on; to fetter or confine; to restrain from free action. Milton.

Fettered; confined.