effigiate

English

Etymology

Latin effigiatus, past participle of effigiare (“to form”), from effigies. See effigy.

Verb

effigiate (third-person singular simple present effigiates, present participle effigiating, simple past and past participle effigiated)

  1. (transitive) To form as an effigy.
  2. (transitive, by extension) To fashion; to adapt.
    • Jeremy Taylor
      Effigiate and conform himself to those circumstances.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for effigiate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Italian

Verb

effigiate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of effigiare
  2. second-person plural imperative of effigiare
  3. second-person plural present subjunctive of effigiare
  4. feminine plural of effigiato
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.