emulate

The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia · 1910 · p. 33

t. [Ital. emulare; Sp. emular; Fr. émuler. [EMULATE, a.] 1. To strive to equal or excel in qualities or actions. "Strove to emulate this morning's thunder With his prodigious rhetoric." Ben Jonson: Cat i line, iv. 2. IMG:content-0946.png:[blocks in formation]