[f. as prec.: see -ATION.] The action of fashioning or of representing; chiefly concr. a likeness, representation.
c. 1535. Dewes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 1057. In the whiche all … effigiation doth shyne clerely.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., X. 41. No such effigiation was therein discovered.
1741. T. Francklin, trans. Cicero’s Nat. Gods, I. 66. Philosophers call every such Effigiation of the Mind vain Motion.
1876. Mrs. Whitney, Sights & Ins., xv. 163. The effigiation shocked me with its rude literalness.
