effigiate
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1VERB + EFFIGIATE
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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 house, she presumed and made bold to go into the house; and bringing an Alablaster-Box of Oyntment, she stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears;
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.
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.
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.
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;
Th'Effigies here th'engraver hath don it: But where's the man effigiates his wit?
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3Let 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
WiktionaryThese 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
WiktionaryIn other words, metaphysical wit discovers infinity in time, provides a transcendent vision of life and a means to truth, and effigiates, that is, portrays the secular in the sacred, the sacred in the
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