Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract RelationsSection II. Relation
3. Partial Relation
19. Imitation.
NOUN:IMITATION; copying &c. v.; transcription; repetition, duplication, reduplication; quotation; reproduction; mimeography.MOCKERY, apery, mimicking, mimicry.
SIMULATION, personation; parrotism, parrotry; representation [See Representation]; semblance, pretense; copy [See Copy]; assimilation.
paraphrase, parody [See Copy].
PLAGIARISM; forgery (falsehood) [See Falsehood].
IMITATOR, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mimic; copyist.
VERB:IMITATE, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo, reëcho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel.
MOCK, take off, borrow, mimic, ape, simulate, personate; act (drama) [See The Drama]; represent [See Representation]; counterfeit, forge, parody, travesty, caricature, burlesque.
FOLLOW in the steps of, follow in the footsteps of; follow in the wake of; tread in the steps of, tread in the footsteps of; take pattern by; follow suit [colloq.], follow the example of; walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another’s book, strike in with; take after, model after; emulate.
ADJECTIVE:IMITATED &c. v.; mock, mimic; modeled after, molded on.
PARAPHRASTIC; literal; imitative; secondhand; imitable; aping, apish, mimicking, borrowed, counterfeit, imitation, false, pseudo, near- [as, near-silk, colloq., U. S.].
ADVERB:LITERALLY, to the letter, verbatim, literatim [L.], sic [L.], totidem verbis [L.], word for word, mot à mot [F.], verbatim et literatim [L.]; exactly, precisely.
QUOTATIONS:
- 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
- The little actor cons another part.—Wordsworth
- Play the sedulous ape to men of letters.—Stevenson