\Si*mil"i*tude\, n. [F. similitude, L. similitudo,
from similis similar. See {Similar}.]
1. The quality or state of being similar or like;
   resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of
   substance. --Chaucer.
         Let us make now man in our image, man In our
         similitude.                           --Milton.
         If fate some future bard shall join In sad
         similitude of griefs to mine.         --Pope.
2. The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to
   another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
         Tasso, in his similitudes, never departed from the
         woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from
         the country.                          --Dryden.
3. That which is like or similar; a representation,
   semblance, or copy; a facsimile.
         Man should wed his similitude.        --Chaucer.