Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of copying. 2. (n.) That which is made or produced as a copy; that which is made to resemble something else, whether for laudable or for fraudulent purposes; likeness; resemblance. 3. (n.) One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voices. Cf. Canon. 4. (n.) The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object. See Imitate, v. t., 3.

Multi-Version Concordance Imitation (3 Occurrences) Acts 7:44 "Our forefathers had the Tent of the Testimony in the Desert, built as He who spoke to Moses had instructed him to make it in imitation of the model which he had seen. (WEY) Hebrews 8:5 and serve a copy and type of the heavenly things, just as Moses was divinely instructed when about to build the tabernacle. For God said, "See that you make everything in imitation of the pattern shown you on the mountain." (WEY) 1 Peter 1:15 but--in imitation of the holy One who has called you--you also must be holy in all your habits of life. (WEY)