Meanings (ES + gloss)
monear
To behave like an ape.
arremedar • imitar • remedar
To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
But there’s this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.
It is not conceived as a mere “aping” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.
Phrases