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Thompson Chain Reference
• Imitation
Dictionaries
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Religious Life: Not Mere Imitation
• Imitation: of Good Men Its Limit
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Imitate
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Imitation
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Imitation of Christ
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Imitate, Imitator
Webster Dictionary
• Imitative
• Imitational
• Imitation
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Imitation
• The Imitation of Christ
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Imitation of Christ
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Imitation of Christ
Lexicons
• ܡܡܰܪܝܳܢܶܐ
• ܡܳܪܳܐ
• μιμέομαι
• μιμητής
• עָשָׂה , עָשָׂה

(1):

(n.) One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.

(2):

(n.) That which is made or produced as a copy; that which is made to resemble something else, whether for laudable or for fraudulent purposes; likeness; resemblance.

(3):

(n.) The act of imitating.

(4):

(n.) The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate, v. t., 3.