Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Similitude

Similitude , noun

[French similitude, Latin 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