effigiate

Verb

effigiate (third-person singular simple present effigiates, present participle effigiating, simple past and past participle effigiated)

1. (transitive) To form as an effigy or make a representation of; to illustrate or depict.
   • 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...1661, Thomas Malpas, A Box of Spikenard newly broken, page 31
   • These tables were first made by God himself, Exod. xxxi. 18, and given into the hands of Moses; and when they were broken he was commanded […] to effigiate them, or cut stones after their image, into their likeness, for the first were seen only by himself, Deut. x. 11; Exod. xxxiv. 1.1869, John Owen, The Works of John Owen, D.D. - Volume 11, page 80
2. (broadly, transitive) To fashion; to adapt.
   • 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.1670, Thomas Blount, The academy of eloquence, 1654, page 210
   • He who means to win souls, must, as St. Paul did, effigiate and conform himself to those circumstances of living and discourse by which he may prevail.1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC
3. (transitive) 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;1636, Daniel Featley, Clavis Mystica, page 514
   • Th'Effigies here th'engraver hath don it: But where's the man effigiates his wit?1805, James Granger, James Peller Malcolm, Letters Between the Rev. James Granger ... and Many of the Most Eminent Literary Men of His Time, page 370