The greatest part of physicians affirm, that this happens casually and fortuitously; for, when the sperm of the man and woman is too much refrigerated, then children carry a dissimilitude to their parents.
Empedocles says, that the similitude of children to their parents proceeds from the vigorous prevalency of the generating sperm; the dissimilitude from the evaporation of the natural heat it contains.
If it mislead by disproportion or dissimilitude of examples, it teacheth men the force of circumstances, the errors of comparisons, and all the cautions of application; so that in all these it doth rectify more effectually than it can pervert.
Thus equality and likeness in God have reference to the essence; nor can there be inequality or dissimilitude arising from the distinction of the relations.
It is not by reason of relative properties that we speak of similitude or dissimilitude in God, but by reason of the essence.
This kind of appropriation is made both by reason of similitude as regards what exists in the divine persons, and by reason of dissimilitude if we consider what is in creatures.
The mountaineers then become a distinct nation, cut off by dissimilitude of speech from conversation with their neighbours.
That dissimilitude of appearance, which was supposed to keep them distinct from the rest of the nation, might disincline them from coalescing with the Pensylvanians, or people of Connecticut.
Lastly, we have seen from Constantine’s epistle to the churches, that dissimilitude with the Jews was one (though not the only one) reason why it was not thought beseeming to keep Easter upon the fourteenth day of the month.
But these things we are not to urge, because we plead not for dissimilitudewith the Papists in civil fashions, but in sacred and religious ceremonies.
But to render the contrast in this respect still more striking, it may be of use to throw the principal circumstances of dissimilitude into a closer group.
There are also several external causes of cold; the first of which is dissimilitude of minds and manners.
That cold arises from various causes, internal, external, and accidental, all which originate in a dissimilitude of internal inclinations, was proved in the foregoing chapter.
And in this working by resemblance in a kinde of dissimilitude betweene a father and a master.
These though very virtuous, are so far one's own actions, and cause the will to subsist in a multiplicity, in a kind of separate distinction or dissimilitude from God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dissimilitude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
