Effigiate
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To form as an effigy or make a representation of; to illustrate or depict. transitive
"Let me give you a hint and instance of it, in that one and remarkable example of Mary Magdalen, who though she were a notorious Malefactor, and a great and grievous Sinner, as the History Evangelical effigiates, and sets her forth unto us yet, hearing that Jesus sate down to meat in a Pharifee's house, she presumed and made bold to go into the house; and bringing an Alablaster-Box of Oyntment, she stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears;"
- 2 To fashion; to adapt. broadly, transitive
"The Pattern we were effigiated to, was infinitely knowing, infinitely good; in both we are bound to imitate: bound to be the Reprefentatives of both, or we forfeit our Original, and our similitude, too."
- 3 To embody; to manifest
"all this notwithstanding, they that are in their tombes & graves shall heare the voice of the Son of man, & earth, earth, earth in Jeremy winnowed and boulted by death into the smallest dust, shall be effigiated and fhaped anew into living men;"
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More examples"Let me give you a hint and instance of it, in that one and remarkable example of Mary Magdalen, who though she were a notorious Malefactor, and a great and grievous Sinner, as the History Evangelical effigiates, and sets her forth unto us yet, hearing that Jesus sate down to meat in a Pharifee's house, she presumed and made bold to go into the house; and bringing an Alablaster-Box of Oyntment, she stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears;"
Etymology
From Latin effigiātus, past participle of effigiō (“to form”), from effigiēs. See effigy.
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