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Definition of Apelike
1. Adjective. Resembling apes.
Similar to: Nonhuman
Derivative terms: Anthropoid, Anthropoid, Anthropoid, Anthropoid
2. Adjective. Being or given to servile imitation.
Definition of Apelike
1. Adjective. Similar to an ape in appearance or movement. ¹
2. Adjective. Given to servile imitation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apelike
1. resembling an ape (a large, tailless primate) [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apelike
Literary usage of Apelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Thinker: A Review of World-wide Christian Thought (1895)
"WHY is it that the advocates of the theory which derives mail from some apelike
creature will persist, when, they set forth their evolutionary suppositions, ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"The bones are also unusually thick, the whole configuration remarkable and
decidedly apelike and brutal. The other bones found are in keeping with the skull ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Alas, in how many does our humor, in this swift-rolling, self-abrading Time,
itself nomadic, apelike ; mournful enough to him that looks o it with eyes ! ..."
4. Man and the Glacial Period by George Frederick Wright, Henry Williamson Haynes (1892)
"The skull attracted much attention from its supposed possession of many apelike
characteristics; indeed, it was represented by some to be a real ..."
5. English and Engineering by Frank Aydelotte (1917)
"Alas, in how many ways, does our humor, in this swift-rolling, self-abrading
Time, show itself nomadic, apelike; mournful enough to him that looks on it ..."
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