English-Thai Dictionary

effigy

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EFFIGY

n.[L. effigies, from effingo, to fashion; ex and fingo, to form or devise. ] 1. The image or likeness of a person; resemblance; representation; any substance fashioned into the shape of a person.
2. Portrait; likeness; figure, in sculpture or painting.
3. On coins, the print or impression representing the head of the prince who struck the coin.
To burn or hang in effigy, is to burn or hang an image or picture of the person intended to be executed, disgraced or degraded. In France, when a criminal cannot be apprehended, his picture is hung on a gallows or gibbet, at the bottom of which is written his sentence of condemnation.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EFFIGY

Ef "fi *gy, n.; pl. Effigies. Etym: [L. effigies, fr. effingere to form, fashion; ex + fingere to form, shape, devise. See Feign. ]

 

Defn: The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.To burn, or To hang, in effigy, to burn or to hang an image or picture of a person, as a token of public odium.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

effigy

ef fi gy |ˈefijē ˈɛfɪʤi | ▶noun ( pl. effigies ) a sculpture or model of a person: coins bearing the effigy of Maria Theresa of Austria. • a roughly made model of a particular person, made in order to be damaged or destroyed as a protest or expression of anger: the senator was burned in effigy . ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin effigies, from effingere ‘to fashion (artistically ),’ from ex- ‘out ’ + fingere ‘to shape. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

effigy

effigy |ˈɛfɪdʒi | ▶noun ( pl. effigies ) a sculpture or model of a person: a tomb effigy of Eleanor of Aquitaine. • a roughly made model of a person that is made in order to be damaged or destroyed as a protest. PHRASES burn someone in effigy burn a model of a person as a protest. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin effigies, from effingere ‘to fashion (artistically )’, from ex- ‘out ’ + fingere ‘to shape ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

effigy

effigy noun protestors threw water-balloon "bombs " at an effigy of the president: statue, statuette, sculpture, model, dummy, figurine; likeness, image; bust.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

effigy

effigy noun they venerate an effigy of the saint: statue, statuette, carving, sculpture, graven image, model, dummy, figure, figurine, guy; likeness, representation, image; bust, head.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

effigy

ef fi gy /éfɪdʒi /名詞 複 -gies C 1 偶像, 人形 （ひとがた ） 〘憎んでいる人に似せた醜いあるいは滑稽 （こつけい ）な人形; 木材 紙などで作られる 〙.2 ｟かたく ｠(有名な人物の )像, 彫像 .b ù rn [h à ng ] A in é ffigy (政治のデモで )A 〈憎むべき人間 〉の人形を焼く [絞首刑にする ].