1 April 2017

simulacrum

[sim-yuh-ley-kruh m]

noun, plural simulacra [sim-yuh-ley-kruh] (Show IPA)

1. a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
2. an effigy, image, or representation:
a simulacrum of Aphrodite.

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Origin of simulacrum

Latin

1590-1600; < Latin simulācrum likeness, image, equivalent to simulā (re) to simulate + -crum instrumental suffix

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Historical Examples

Morality demands “the good,” and not a simulacrum or make-shift.
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
Henry Jones

They radiate from the surface of the skin and reproduce a simulacrum, as it were, of the surface.
The Problems of Psychical Research
Hereward Carrington

Nature is “the omniform image of the omniform God—His great living semblance ( simulacrum).”
Giordano Bruno
James Lewis McIntyre

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Today’s quote

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

– Eduardo Galeano

On this day

1 April – April Fool’s Day.

1 April 1918 – the Royal Air Force is founded in England. It’s first planes were the Sopwith Pup, Sopwith Camel, Bristol F2B fighters, and Royal Aircraft Factory’s SE5s, which were used during World War I.

1 April 1999 – Europe adopts the Euro as a common currency.

1 April 2012 – Aung San Suu Kyi wins a Burma by-election. Suu Kyi had been under house arrest for around 20 years following the military take-over of Burma in 1990.