单词 | effigy |
释义 | effigyn. 1. A likeness, portrait, or image. Now chiefly applied to a sculptured representation, or to a habited image, as in 2; also to a portrait on a coin; in wider sense somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation ylikenesseOE likenessOE anlikenessOE ylikeOE imagec1300 acornc1388 portraiturea1393 resemblancea1393 semblanta1400 counterfeitc1400 shapec1400 statuec1405 representation1477 presentationa1513 presentment1535 effigy1539 porture1542 express1553 effigium1564 representance1565 designment1570 icon1572 mimesisa1586 effigies1615 expressurea1616 represent1615 signature1618 proportion1678 representative1766 rendering1825 buggerlugs1839 effigiation1876 1539 N. Wotton in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. cxliv. II. 122 Hanze Albein hath taken th'effigies of my Ladye Anne and the ladye Amelye. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. R3 Their pictures or effigies (for I doubt whether picture be a proper word.., because it is not done with the pensill) are made of this worke [sc. mosaic]. 1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity iii. ii. 282 The Effigies & Representations of Martyrs. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 55. ⁋1 The burning the Effigy of the Pretender. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xxxi. 384 But his Effigie is often carried abroad in Procession, mounted on a Coach four Stories high. 1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 166 I look at his effigy opposite the title-page. 1853 J. Phillips Rivers, Mountains, & Sea-coast Yorks. viii. 195 Coins, bearing the effigy of the Horse. 1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 29 An ancient cross-legged effigy clad in mail. 2. Phrases. in effigy: under the form, or by means of, a portrait or image; also figurative. to execute in effigy, to hang in effigy, to burn in effigy: to inflict upon an image the semblance of the punishment which the original is considered to have deserved; formerly done by way of carrying out a judicial sentence on a criminal who had escaped; now only as an expression of popular indignation or hatred.In the early examples the phrase in effigie was probably always intended as Latin; in poetry of the 17th cent. the pronunciation with 4 syllables is usually indicated. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [adverb] in effigya1631 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) I. 267 In those that are damned before, we are damned in Effigie. a1652 R. Brome Queenes Exchange (1657) ii. i. C j b Marvel not..when this but in Effigy [sic, though metre requires L. in effigie] Was but plac'd by her. 1667 Third Advice in Second & Third Advice to Painter 31 Gibson, farewell, till next we put to sea, Faith thou hast drawn her in Effigie. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 182 Some, on the Sign-Post of an Ale-house, Hang in Effigy, on the Gallows. 1707 London Gaz. No. 4367/1 A Third, nam'd Piaget, was executed in Effigie, he had fled from Justice. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 69. ¶7 One of our old Kings..is represented in Effigy. 1735 J. Swift Full & True Acct. Execution W. Wood in Wks. IV. 246 The People..appointed certain Commissioners to hang him in Effigie. 1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) iii. 32 Who proposed to burn them in effigy? 3. effigy-mound n. a prehistoric earth mound in the shape of an animal. ΚΠ 1885 Science 13 Feb. So few earthworks resembling animals in their shape are known beyond the limits of Wisconsin, that I send you an account..of the most interesting of these Minnesota effigy mounds. 1886 Amer. Jrnl. Archæol. 2 66 Bancroft..places Pidgeon and Lapham on an equal footing, as the original discoverers of the ‘effigy mounds’. 1929 Encycl. Brit. XV. 928/2 In Wisconsin the most interesting mounds are the effigy mounds—earthen forms of mammals, birds and reptiles. 1929 Encycl. Brit. XV. 928/2 The purpose of these effigy mounds is probably totemic. 1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xviii. 820 Some early Woodland cultures..Proto-Effigy Mound or Old Copper, Wisconsin... Some middle-period cultures..Effigy Mound, Wisconsin. Derivatives ˈeffigy v. (transitive) to serve as a picture of, to ‘body forth’. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > represent physically [verb (transitive)] representc1400 picturea1530 form1590 embody1741 to body forth1800–24 effigy1815 thing1883 vehiculate1928 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris v. 67 Paris..is..rich in what is calculated..to suggest reflection..by effigying the events of a far distant date. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1539 |
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