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[Var. of obs. sencion, senchion, IMG:content-1096.png:[blocks in formation] Mandeville , Travels, p. 164. made of yuory the simulachre or image of Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, i. 8. simulacrum (sim-ū-lā'krum), n.; pl. simulacra (-krä). [L., a likene , image, form, appearance, phantom (in philosophy a tr. of Gr. ὁμοίω μα ), The mountain is flanked by two tall conical simulacra , with radiate summits. B. V. Head , Hist or i a Numorum, p. 634. He [the author of the De Mysteriis) condemns as folly and impiety the worship of images of the gods, though his master held that these simulacra were filled with divine power, whether made by the hand of man or (as he believed) fallen from heaven. Encyc . Brit ., XII. 603. 2. A shadowy or unreal likene of anything; a phantom; a vague, unreal representation. The sensations of persons who have suffered amputation show that their sensorium retains a picture or map of the body so far as regards the location of all its sensitive regions. This simulacrum is invaded by consciousne whenever the proper stimulus is applied. E. D. Cope , Origin of the Fittest, p. 407. All the landscape and the scene seemed the simulacrum of an old romance, the echo of an early dream. C. D. Warner, Roundabout Journey, xvii. 3. A formal sign; a sign which represents a thing by resembling it, but does not indicate it, or stand for the actual presence of the thing. simulant (sim'ū-lant), a . and n. [ lan (t-)s, ppr. of simul are, make like: see simu late.] I. a. Simulating (something else); appearing to be (what it is not); replacing (in position or in aspect): with of: used especially in biology: as, a scutum simulant of a scutellum; cheliceres simulant of chelæ; stamens simulant of petals, or conversely. A good many parts and organs, under various physiological modifications, are thus simulant of others from which they are morphologically different. See similar. 4. II. n. One who or that which simulates something else. simulant These are, indeed, solemn proce ions, which not even youth and beauty, or their simulants , can make gay. W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, I. 103.