Imitates
[imiteits]
Examples
- And he imitates the means because he wishes, on his own behalf, as part of his own initiative, to take an effective part in the game. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It always seems curious to watch the satisfaction of some reform magazines when China or Turkey or Persia imitates the constitutional forms of Western democracies. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If he closely imitates the narratives which he has before rendered successful, he is doomed to wonder that they please no more. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He imitates the means of doing, not the end or thing to be done. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Thus far then we are pretty well agreed that the imitator has no knowledge worth mentioning of what he imitates. Plato. The Republic.
- The mockers and mocked always inhabit the same region; we never find an imitator living remote from the form which it imitates. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The painter imitates not the original bed, but the bed made by the carpenter. Plato. The Republic.
- That there are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them? Plato. The Republic.
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