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semblable
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tags: [obsolete]
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Definition:1. {adj} similar2. {n} semblance; likeness
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I know well that my lord can more than I;
What that he saith I hold it firm and stable,
I say the same, or else a thing semblable.
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Merchant's Tale (1400)
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but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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