[ad. Gr. ἔκτυπον, neut. of ἔκτυπος worked in relief, f. ἐκ out + τύπος figure.]
† 1. An impression (in wax, clay, etc.) of a seal or medal. ? Obs. in lit. sense.
1662. Phillips, Pref., Ectype, a thing taken out of another Copy.
1697. Evelyn, Numism., v. 196. Sent the Ectype of a Medal to Sir Robert Cotton.
1751. in Chambers, Cycl.
b. fig. A copy, reproduction; esp. as opposed to archetype or prototype.
1646. J. Hall, Poems, I. 48. Thine own ectype Brownrigge.
1692. Beverley, Disc. Dr. Crisp, 10. It is an Ectype or Exemplification of the Everlasting Covenant.
1690. Locke, Hum. Und., II. xxxi. § 13 (1695), 212. The complex Ideas of Substances are Ectypes, Copies too; but not perfect ones.
1722. Wollaston, Relig. Nat., iii. (1738), 53. The true ectypes of their originals.
1846. Sir W. Hamilton, in Reid’s Wks., 771/2. To subordinate … the prototype to the ectype.
2. Archit. An object in relievo or embossed.
1876. Gwilt, Archit., Gloss.
