semblable

comparative more semblable · superlative most semblable

1. obsoleteapparent.
2. obsoleteconformable.
3. obsoletesimilar.

   [C]ompare his [Henry I of England's] lyfe with his two bretherne, william, called Rouſe [William II of England], and Robert le courtoiſe [Robert Curthose], they both nat hauyng ſẽblable lernyng with the ſayd Henry, […]

   1531, Thomas Elyot, “Why Gentlemen in this Present Tyme be Nat Equall in Doctryne to the Auncient Noble Men”, in The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC, 1st boke, folio 43, recto

plural semblables

1. obsoletesomething similar; likeness; representation

   […] but in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him his umbrage, nothing more.

   c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], lines 115-120