effigiating

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
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
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