释义 |
eˌffigiˈation [f. as prec.: see -ation.] The action of fashioning or of representing; chiefly concr. a likeness, representation.
c1535G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 1057 In the whiche all..effigiation doth shyne clerely. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. x. 41 No such effigiation was therein discovered. 1741tr. Cicero's Nat. Gods i. 66 Philosophers call every such Effigiation of the Mind vain Motion. 1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. xv. 163 The effigiation shocked me with its rude literalness. |