semble

What it means

1. obsoleteTo imitate; to make a representation or likeness.

   Where sembling art may carve the fair effect.

   1706, Matthew Prior, An Ode humbly inscrib'd to the queen

2. singularsingular onlythird personlawIt seems; it appears that

In a sentence

Where sembling art may carve the fair effect.

1706, Matthew Prior, An Ode humbly inscrib'd to the queen

Where it comes from

1. Old Frenchsembler“to resemble”
2. Middle Englishsemblen
3. Englishsemble

From Middle English semblen, from Old French sembler (“to resemble”).