Aristotle himself uses imitate in this sense when he speaks of the delight children take in imitation.

What is consciously imitated from the past is not the same as that natural growth which it imitates, and which was as congenial to those days as it is uncongenial to ours.

Sundry "nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles," and sundry eloquent glances of his bright black eyes, were covertly bestowed upon his fair cousin; anon, with ludicrous solemnity, he felt the pulse of Perez, shook his head, and, in short, imitated with inimitable exactness all the technical airs and graces of a regular graduate of Salamanca."Cousin," cried he at length, with a sly look at Juana, "I pity your plightfrom my soul

He prolonged the a's and o's, as the Southern trick is, and imitated to such perfection the pleasant localisms of Virginian pronunciation, that keener critics of speech and accent than these galliard troops would have been deceived.

Their character may be tolerably imitated by pronouncing the syllables lubb, dup.

The result of this was immediately seen in the improved methods which he introduced at Greenwich, and which were speedily imitated at other Observatories.

Chronic disease is taken for a new type of health; and Byron is admired and imitated for that which Byron is trying to tear out of his own heart, and trample under foot as his curse and bane, something which is not Byron's self, but Byron's house-fiend, and tyrant, and shame.

Miss Partington had never seen a young lady she so much admired, and so much wished to imitate as me.

This process, by which a constant supply of purified water is kept up in the natural economy, is imitated on a small scale when water is converted into steam by the action of heat, and this vapor is cooled so as to reproduce liquid water, the operation in question being known as distillation.

But the ordinary style of legal instruments no popular writer can imitate without becoming ridiculous.

Imitation not only brings the thing imitated into disrepute, but tends to destroy what original faculty the imitator may have possessed.

At first the enthusiasm for antiquity inspired architects and scholars alike with a desire to imitate per saltum, and many works of fervid sympathy and pure artistic intuition were produced.

Style is more difficult to imitate than structure, but on the other hand the origin of structural influence is more difficult to trace than that of style.

When poesy joins profit with delight, Her images should be most exquisite; 10 Since man to that perfection cannot rise, Of always virtuous, fortunate, and wise; Therefore the patterns man should imitate Above the life our masters should create.