Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make into an effigy of something; form into a like figure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To form as an effigy; hence, to fashion; to adapt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To form as an
effigy . - verb transitive, by extension To
fashion ; toadapt .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Latin effigiatus, past participle of effigiare to form, from effigies. See effigy.
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Examples
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But, O my God, I press thee not with thine own text, without thine own comment; I know that in the state of my body, which is more discernible than that of my soul, thou dost effigiate my soul to me.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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