Obs. rare. [L. ēthopœia, a. Gr. ἠθοποιία, f. ἦθο-ς character + -ποιία representation.] Delineation of character; moral portraiture. Also Rhet. (see quot. 1678).
1659. O. Walker, Instruct. Oratory, 74. Examples of such Descriptions and Histories of things (under which I comprehend Ethopoea’s...).
1678–1706. Phillips, Ethopœa, a figure of Rhetorick in which there is a feigning of certain words accommodated to certain persons, either to their praise or reproach.
1721–1800. in Bailey.
