facsimile

plural facsimiles · plural facsimilia · alternative fac-simile

1. countableA copy or reproduction.

   To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?

   1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”, in James Matheson Thompson, editor, Twentieth Century Theories of Art, published 1990, § VIII, 540

   Synonyms: autotype, copy, reproduction, facsimile reproduction, fax

2. uncountableReproduction in the exact form as the original.

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   Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

3. countableuncountableA fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images by means of radio or a telephone network.
4. countableuncountableThe image sent by the machine itself.

present singular third person facsimiles · participle present facsimileing · participle past facsimiled · past facsimiled · participle past facsimilied · past facsimilied · alternative fac-simile

1. transitiveTo send by means of a facsimile machine; to fax.
2. transitiveTo make a copy of; to reproduce.

   The branch at the top [of the figure] is facsimiled from that in the hand of Adam, in Durer’s Adam and Eve.

   1860, John Ruskin, Modern Painters, volume 5, page 68

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   “What is a turtle?” asked I, facsimileing the graceful attitude of Don José, and leaning both my arms full-length on the table, while I stared him undauntedly in the face, as if he had been no more than an ordinary man.

   1851, Rosina Bulwer-Lytton, Miriam Sedley, volume 1, pages 184-185

   The letter was photographed, facsimiled and copied out by hand, then the original was resealed and sent on to its destination.

   1974, Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad, page 189