misimitationEtymologyFrom mis- + imitate + -ation.nounThe act of misimitating; defective imitation.“All of them have their allowed and profitable use in God's Church, though not in so high a nature; except that of extreme unction; which as it is an apish misimitation of that extraordinary course which the apostolic times used in their cures of the sick, so it is grossly misapplied to other purposes than were intended in the first institution.”