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▪ I. ‖ effigies arch.|ɛˈfɪdʒɪiːz| [L. effigies.] A likeness, image, portrait, whether drawn, painted, or sculptured, or of any other kind. (Now superseded by effigy, exc. as humorously pedantic.)
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 193. 1615 G. Sandys Trav. 181 The effigies of Saint Ierome, miraculous framed by the naturall veines of the stone. 1676Lond. Gaz. No. 1123/4 Which Sentences were..Executed upon them in Effigies, they being fled. 1702W. J. Bruyn's Voy. Levant vi. 17 The Statue which we saw at this Castle is the Effigies of Queen Semiramis. 1820Scott Monast. xxiii. note, A gold coin of James V..the effigies of the sovereign is represented wearing a bonnet. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 178 A Signpost, whereon..stood painted the Effigies of a Pair of Leather Breeches. fig.1653S. Fairclough Fun. Serm. 11 To delineate..the effigies and beauty of his like and conversation. ▪ II. † eˈffigies, v. nonce-wd. [f. prec.] trans. To portray, picture.
1652Sparke Prim. Devot. (1663) 223 Sorrows inexpressible..fitter here to be effigiessed like sacrificed Iphigenia, with Agamemnon's veil of silence. |