arch. [L. effigies.] A likeness, image, portrait, whether drawn, painted, or sculptured, or of any other kind. (Now superseded by EFFIGY, exc. as humorously pedantic.)
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., II. vii. 193. As mine eye doth his effigies witnesse.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 181. The effigies of Saint Ierome, miraculous framed by the naturall veines of the stone.
1676. Lond. Gaz., No. 1123/4. Which Sentences were … Executed upon them in Effigies, they being fled.
1702. W. J., trans. Bruyn’s Voy. Levant, vi. 17. The Statue which we saw at this Castle is the Effigies of Queen Semiramis.
1820. Scott, Monast., II. 267, note. A gold coin of James V.,… the effigies of the sovereign is represented wearing a bonnet.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 178. A Signpost, whereon … stood painted the Effigies of a Pair of Leather Breeches.
fig. 1653. S. Fairclough, Fun. Serm., 11. To delineate … the effigies and beauty of his life and conversation.
