{ Sim"u*la`cher, Sim"u*la`chre } (?), n. [Cf. F. simulacre.] See
Simulacrum. [Obs.]
||Sim`u*la"crum (?), n.; pl. Simulacra (#). [L. See Simulate.] A
||likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a
||derogatory sense.
Beneath it nothing but a great simulacrum.
Thackeray.
Sim"u*lar (?), n. [Cf. L. simulator, F. simulateur. See Simulate.] One
who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or
counterfeits something; a pretender. [Obs.] Shak.
Christ calleth the Pharisees hypocrites, that is to say, simulars,
and painted sepulchers.
Tyndale.
Sim"u*lar, a. False; specious; counterfeit. [R. & Obs.] "Thou simular
man of virtue." Shak.
Sim"u*late (?), a. [L. simulatus, p. p. of simulare to simulate; akin
to simul at the same time, together, similis like. See Similar, and cf.
Dissemble, Semblance.] Feigned; pretended. Bale.
Sim"u*late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Simulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Simulating.] To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to
assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.
The Puritans, even in the depths of the dungeons to which she had
sent them, prayed, and with no simulated fervor, that she might be
kept from the dagger of the assassin.
Macaulay.
Sim`u*la"tion (?), n. [F. simulation, L. simulatio.] The act of
simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; --
distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is
true.
Syn. -- Counterfeiting; feint; pretense.
Sim"u*la`tor (?), n. [L.] One who simulates, or feigns. De Quincey.
Sim"u*la*to*ry (?), a. Simulated, or capable of being simulated. Bp.
Hall.
Si`mul*ta*ne"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being simultaneous;
simultaneousness.
Si`mul*ta"ne*ous (?), a. [LL. simultim at the same time, fr. L. simul.
See Simulate.] Existing, happening, or done, at the same time; as,
simultaneous events. -- Si`mul*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. --
Si`mul*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
Simultaneous equations (Alg.), two or more equations in which the
values of the unknown quantities entering them are the same at the same
time in both or in all.
Sim"ul*ty (?), n. [L. simultas a hostile encounter, drudge, originally,
a (hostile) coming together, fr. simul together: cf. OF. simulté.]
Private grudge or quarrel; as, domestic simulties. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Sin (?), adv., prep., & conj. Old form of Since. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. &
Scot.]
Sin that his lord was twenty year of age.
Chaucer.
Sin, n. [OE. sinne, AS. synn, syn; akin to D. zonde, OS. sundia, OHG.
sunta, G. sünde, Icel., Dan. & Sw. synd, L. sons, sontis, guilty,
perhaps originally from the p. pr. of the verb signifying, to be, and
meaning, the one who it is. Cf. Authentic, Sooth.] 1. Transgression of
the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of
God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the
character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.
Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
John viii. 34.
Sin is the transgression of the law.