semblative
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English
Adjective
semblative (comparative more semblative, superlative most semblative)
- (obsolete) Resembling.
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 257, column 2:
- For they ſhall yet belye thy happy yeeres,
That ſay thou art a man: Dianas lip
Is not more ſmooth, and rubious: thy ſmall pipe
Is as the maidens organ, ſhrill, and ſound,
And all is ſemblatiue a womans part.
Noun
semblative (plural semblatives)
- (grammar) A grammatical case that denotes the similarity of one entity to another.