consimilar, a. Now rare.
(kənˈsɪmɪlə(r))
[f. L. consimil-is (see consimile) after similar.]
† 1. = consimile. Obs.
| 1548–77 Vicary Anat. ii. (1888) 19 The Sinew is a consimiler member, simple and spermatike. Ibid. ii. 23 Pinguedo..is a consimilar member, not spermatike. 1651 Biggs New Disp. 114 Homogeneous and consimilar. |
2. Entirely similar, like.
| 1645 W. Greenhill Expos. Ezekiel i. 28. 203 Jesus Christ..is not consimilar but consubstantiall with them. 1660 tr. Paracelsus' Archidoxis i. vi. 88 In the Consimilar or like Metals. 1745 tr. Columella's Husb. v. ii, Only those grafts could coalesce, which in their bark and rind and fruit were consimilar to those trees upon which they are ingrafted. 1863 J. R. Wallran Mem. Fountains Abbey (Surtees) 142 By consimilar letters, the Archbishop of York was requested to lend three hundred marks. |