2. Verb. (third-person singular of mime) ¹
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Definition of Mimes
1. mime [v] - See also: mime
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mimes
Literary usage of Mimes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nineteenth Century (1891)
"THE ' mimes' OF HEROD AS BOOKS, says Hazlitt, are not like women, the worse for
being old. But the most of men, loving the crude better than the mellow, ..."
2. Dramatic Traditions of the Dark Ages by Joseph Salathiel Tunison (1907)
"The fashion of the emperors in surrounding themselves with mimes, dancers, ...
VI It may be suspected that the mimes in the last years of the empire, ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"The mimes of Sophron of Syracuse were a kind of comic delineations of real ...
The actors who performed them were also called mimes, and differed from the ..."
4. The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman (1840)
"In its degeneracy, the higher Drama had long been supplanted by,— 1st, the mimes.
Even this kind of drama, perhaps, of Roman, or even of earlier Italian ..."
5. Select Translations from Scaliger's Poetics by Giulio Cesare Scaligero (1905)
"TRAGEDY, COMEDY, mimes Although tragedy resembles this epic poetry, it differs
in rarely introducing persons of the lower classes, such as messengers, ..."
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