[f. prec. sb.] trans. a. To serve as a facsimile of; to resemble exactly. rare. b. To make a facsimile of; to reproduce.
1839. Lady Lytton, Cheveley (ed. 2), II. v. 163. Two stiff, hard, boarding-school-looking sofas facsimiled each other at either side of the fireplace.
1862. The Saturday Review, XIV. 11 Oct., 454/1. No one familiar with the signature of the present Bishop of Oxford will fail to be struck with its remarkable resemblance to that of Louis XIV. of France, as here facsimiled.
1877. A. B. Edwards, Up Nile, Pref. 14. Even romances and tales, are brought to light, photographed, facsimiled in chromo-lithography, printed in hieroglyphic type, and translated in forms suited both to the learned and to the general reader.
absol. 1882. Pall Mall G., 15 June 5/1. They are the work of the artist who adapts, and not of the photographer who facsimiles.
Hence Facsimiled ppl. a.
1831. Pittsburg Gaz., 11 Nov., 2/3. Two hundred copies were unrolled, transcribed, and fac similied by Neapolitan artists.
1887. The Athenæum, 3 Sept., 313/2. Mr. Ruskin republished, with facsimiled, but uncoloured illustrations an anonymously written child’s book of amusing verse.
