LekhoriLekhoriTo attempt to equal or be the same as.
To copy or imitate, especially a person.
People are endlessly fascinating, even if you'd never want to emulate them.
To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].
Striving to excel, ambitious, emulous.
That can I, At leaſt the whiſper goes ſo : Our laſt King, Whoſe Image euen but novv appear'd to vs, VVas (as you know) by Fortinbras of Norvvay, (Thereto prick’d on by a moſt emulate Pride) Dar’d to the Combate.
First attested in 1586; borrowed from Latin aemulātus, perfect active participle of Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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