a. Now rare. [f. L. consimil-is (see CONSIMILE) after SIMILAR.]
† 1. = CONSIMILE. Obs.
1548–77. Vicary, Anat., ii. (1888), 19. The Sinew is a consimiler member, simple and spermatike. Ibid., ii. 23. Pinguedo … is a consimilar member, not spermatike.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., 114. Homogeneous and consimilar.
2. Entirely similar, like.
1645. W. Greenhill, Expos. Ezekiel, i. 28. 203. Jesus Christ … is not consimilar but consubstantiall with them.
1660. trans. Paracelsus’ Archidoxis, I. vi. 88. In the Consimilar or like Metals.
1745. trans. Columella’s Husb., V. ii. Only those grafts could coalesce, which in their bark and rind and fruit were consimilar to those trees upon which they are ingrafted.
1863. J. R. Wallran, Mem. Fountains Abbey (Surtees), 142. By consimilar letters, the Archbishop of York was requested to lend three hundred marks.
