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==Origin==
Middle French ''effigie'', from [[Latin]] ''effigies'', from ''effingere'' to [[form]], from ''ex''- + ''fingere'' to [[shape]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1539]
The [[word]] comes, perhaps via French, from the Latin, meaning "representation", and originally was used in [[English]] in the plural only – even a single image was "the effigies of ..." The word occurs in Shakespeare's ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_You_Like_It As You Like It]'' of 1600 (II, vii, 193), though it first appeared in 1539. "In effigie" was probably understood as a Latin phrase until the 18th century.
==Definitions==
*1: a [[sculpture]] or model of a [[person]]: ''coins bearing the effigy of Maria Theresa of Austria''.
• a roughly made [[model]] of a particular person, made in order to be damaged or [[destroyed]] as a [[protest]] or [[expression]] of [[anger]]: ''the senator was burned in effigy''.
==Description==
An '''effigy''' is a representation of a specific person in the form of sculpture or some other three-dimensional medium. The use of the term is normally restricted to certain [[contexts]] in a somewhat [[arbitrary]] way: recumbent effigies on [[tombs]] are so called, but standing statues of [[individuals]], or busts, are usually not. Likenesses of religious figures in [[sculpture]] are not normally called effigies. Effigies are common elements of funerary art, especially as a recumbent effigy (in a lying position) in stone or metal placed on a [[tomb]], or a less permanent "funeral effigy", placed on the coffin in a grand [[funeral]], wearing real clothing. Figures, often [[caricature]] in style, that are damaged, destroyed or paraded in order to [[harm]] the person represented by [[magical]] means, or merely to mock or insult them or their [[memory]], are also called effigies.
It is common to burn an effigy of a person ("burn in effigy") as an act of [[protest]].
==Origin==
Middle French ''effigie'', from [[Latin]] ''effigies'', from ''effingere'' to [[form]], from ''ex''- + ''fingere'' to [[shape]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1539]
The [[word]] comes, perhaps via French, from the Latin, meaning "representation", and originally was used in [[English]] in the plural only – even a single image was "the effigies of ..." The word occurs in Shakespeare's ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_You_Like_It As You Like It]'' of 1600 (II, vii, 193), though it first appeared in 1539. "In effigie" was probably understood as a Latin phrase until the 18th century.
==Definitions==
*1: a [[sculpture]] or model of a [[person]]: ''coins bearing the effigy of Maria Theresa of Austria''.
• a roughly made [[model]] of a particular person, made in order to be damaged or [[destroyed]] as a [[protest]] or [[expression]] of [[anger]]: ''the senator was burned in effigy''.
==Description==
An '''effigy''' is a representation of a specific person in the form of sculpture or some other three-dimensional medium. The use of the term is normally restricted to certain [[contexts]] in a somewhat [[arbitrary]] way: recumbent effigies on [[tombs]] are so called, but standing statues of [[individuals]], or busts, are usually not. Likenesses of religious figures in [[sculpture]] are not normally called effigies. Effigies are common elements of funerary art, especially as a recumbent effigy (in a lying position) in stone or metal placed on a [[tomb]], or a less permanent "funeral effigy", placed on the coffin in a grand [[funeral]], wearing real clothing. Figures, often [[caricature]] in style, that are damaged, destroyed or paraded in order to [[harm]] the person represented by [[magical]] means, or merely to mock or insult them or their [[memory]], are also called effigies.
It is common to burn an effigy of a person ("burn in effigy") as an act of [[protest]].
