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English Dictionary: aping by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ape \Ape\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Aped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Aping}.]
      To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or
      follow servilely or irrationally. [bd]How he apes his
      sire.[b8] --Addison.
  
               The people of England will not ape the fashions they
               have never tried.                                    --Burke.
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