simular (simular)

and n. [Irreg. Thou perjured, and thou simular man of virtue. Shak ., Lear, iii. 2. 54. 2. Simulated or a umed; counterfeit; false. [Rare.] I return'd with simular proof enough To make the noble Leon at us mad. 5641 M, why, that begins my name... M, O, A, I; this simulation is not as the former; and yet, to crush this a little, it would bow to me, for every one of these letters are in my name. Shak . , T. N., ii. 5. 151. 4. In French law , a fictitious engagement, con- tract, or conveyance, made either as a fraud where no real transaction is intended, or as a mask or cover for a different transaction, in which case it may sometimes be made in good faith and valid.=Syn. 1. See di emble . simulator (sim'ū-la-tor), n. [F. simul at eur = Sp. Pg. simulador It. simul a tore , ulator , an imitator, a copier, simul at us , pp. of simul are , imitate, simulate, copy: see simu- late.] One who simulates or feigns. They are merely simulators of the part they sustain. De Quincey, Autobiog. Sketches, I. 200. ( Davies .) Shak ., Cymbeline, v. 5. 200. simulatory (sim'ū-lā-tō-ri), a. [ simulate + In the old poetic fame The gods are blind and lame, And the simular despite Betrays the more abounding might. Emerson, Monadnoc. II. n. One who simulates or feigns anything. [Rare.] -ory.] Serving to deceive; characterized by simulation. Jehoram wisely suspects this flight of the Syrians to be but simulatory and politic, only to draw Israel out of their city, for the spoil of both. Bp . Hall , Famine of Samaria Relieved. Simuliidæ (sim-ū-li'i-dē), n. pl. [NL. (Zetterstedt, 1842, as Simulides ), Simulium + -idæ .] sin No fact is more familiar than that there is a simultane ous impulse acting on many individual minds at once, so that genius comes in clusters, and shines rarely as a single star. O. W. Holmes, E ays, p. 84. The combination, whether simultaneous or succe ive, of our conscious experiences is correlated with the combination of the impre ions made.. G. T. Ladd , Physiol. Psychology, p. 580. Simultaneous equations, equations satisfied at the same time-that is, with the same system of values of the unknown quantities, or, in the case of differential equations, with the same system of primitives. simultaneously (sim-ulor si-mul-tā nē-us-li), adv. In a simultaneous manner; at the same time; together in point of time.