▪ I. dissimile, n.
(dɪˈsɪmɪliː)
[a. L. dissimile, neut. of dissimilis unlike; after simile.]
The opposite of ‘simile’; a comparison setting forth the dissimilarity of things; a comparison or illustration by contrast: see dissimilitude 2.
| 1682 [see dissimilies 1659]. 1727–51 Chambers Cycl., Dissimilitude, or Dissimili, in rhetoric, etc., an argument, wherein, from dissimilar, or unlike things, other dissimilars are deduced. 1826 H. N. Coleridge West Indies 179 No more to be compared to the last..than I to Hercules, a meeting house to a church, Westminster to Eton, or any other equally appropriate dissimile. |
▪ II. dissimile, -ill etc.,
var. ff. dissimule v. Obs.