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effigy 音標拼音: ['ɛfɪdʒi] n. 肖像,雕像 肖像,雕像 effigy n 1: a representation of a person ( especially in the form of sculpture); " the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; " the emperor' s tomb had his image carved in stone" [ synonym: { effigy}, { image}, { simulacrum}] Effigy \ Ef" fi* gy\, n.; pl. { Effigies}. [ L. effigies, fr. effingere to form, fashion; ex fingere to form, shape, devise. See { Feign}.] 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. [ 1913 Webster] { To burn in effigy}, or { To hang in effigy}, to burn or to hang an image or picture of a person, as a token of public odium. [ 1913 Webster] 35 Moby Thesaurus words for " effigy": companion, copy, dead ringer, double, duplicate, exact likeness, fellow, icon, idol, image, likeness, living image, living picture, match, mate, miniature, mirroring, model, photograph, picture, portrait, reflection, resemblance, rubbing, semblance, shadow, similitude, simulacrum, spit and image, spitting image, trace, tracing, twin, very image, very pictureEFFIGY, crim. law. The figure or representation of a person. 2. To make the effigy of a person with an intent to make him the object of ridicule, is a libel. ( q. v.) Hawk. b. 1, c. 7 3, s. 2 14 East, 227; 2 Chit. Cr. Law, 866. 3. In France an execution by effigy or in effigy is adopted in the case of a criminal who has fled from justice. By the public exposure or exhibition of a picture or representation of him on a scaffold, on which his name and the decree condemning him are written, he is deemed to undergo the punishment to which he has been sentenced. Since the adoption of the Code Civil, the practice has been to affix the names, qualities or addition, and the residence of the condemned person, together with an extract from the sentence of condemnation, to a post set upright in the ground, instead of exhibiting a portrait of him on the scaffold. Repertoire de Villargues; Biret, Vo cab.
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