simial

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English

Adjective

simial (comparative more simial, superlative most simial)

  1. simian; apelike
    • 1878 July 20, “African Magnates in London: The King of Bonny and the Liberian Premier Seeing European Civilization”, in The Daily Gazette, volume LXXXVI, number 292, Wilmington, Del., page , column 4:
      It is these leaping tree-snakes probably which have given to monkeys their frantic terror at sight of a snake; and if in the anthropoid period any superior monkey and monkeyess had gained a securer place, defended by precipices from quadrupedal beasts, they might still have found one of these Leapers in their simial Eden.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “simial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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