Word: fac
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...vibrations in an electric current. The pitch and quality of the voice and the sounds of the vowels are transmitted perfectly, and part of the consonants are so distinct as to be easily recognizable. The Professor brought out an invention last fall by which writing might be transmitted in fac-simile characters by telegraph, and his present inventions, if completed, promise to revolutionize the system of telegraphy...
...FACETIOUS Senior asked a Freshman to tell him the difference between a fac-simile and a sick family; but the laugh was on the Senior; for the Freshman instantly replied, "No difference: a sick family is a family that is sick, and fac-simile means 'the same.'" - Williams Review...
...dissatisfied with the popular art productions which disfigure so many walls, in the shape of decidedly "unpleasant" females in most unadvisable attitudes, - now clinging or "wopsing" about a cross, and now simply "gawking" at vacuity, - may not at first quite sympathize with these admirable fac-similes. The above-mentioned females, currently called Faith, Charity, Hope, or Liberty, often have a surface prettiness that must not be sought in a real work of art. Rembrandt and Durer never made pretty pictures, any more than Shakespeare wrote "nice" poetry...