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Definition of Aping
1. ape [v] - See also: ape
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aping
Literary usage of Aping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... Fortune-Tellers and Filter Peddlers—aping the Official Religion to Secure Good
Jobs—Emperor Hadrian patronized the ..."
2. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, L. Dora Schmitz (1892)
"Explanation of Indirect or Potential Adaptation by the Correlation of the Sexual
Organs and of the other Parts of the Body.—aping or Mimetic Adaptation ..."
3. Old Times: A Picture of Social Life at the End of the Eighteenth Century by John Ashton (1885)
"Cheapside aping the Mode, a Body without a Soul." The tax on Hair powder was much
objected to ; people had been used, for a long time, to grease, ..."
4. Reminiscences of Literary London from 1779-1853: With Interesting Anecdotes by Thomas Rees, John Britton (1896)
"... geans,"—with parade and much etiquette, in aping the operatic customs and
manners of theatric and ball-room concerts. The large rooms at both places ..."
5. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1855)
"MANNY'S IMPROVED MOWING AND BE aping MACHINES. It ¡a one of our principal objects
to present to the farmer such new machines and implement«, ..."
6. The Epigrams of Martial by Martial (1877)
"aping my lord, I fear poor Tom will break. Hay. As the ox burst the frog (so
fables speak), LXXX. ON EROS. Eros weeps whenever he casts his eye on beautiful ..."
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