What's the difference between effigial and effigy?

Effigial


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to an effigy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Will I get burnt to death in a giant effigy of a man woven from wicker?"
  • (2) Rybak was indicted for inciting hatred last year after burning an effigy of an orthodox Jew during a protest against Muslim immigration.
  • (3) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
  • (4) Today, they pitch up outside Buxton Opera House, unpack an 8ft effigy of Big Ben and an even bigger gibbet, and – oh, yes – hang parliament.
  • (5) There has been little media interest in the campaign, with some of the most recent reports about the US president concerning the burning of effigies of him to protest against a blasphemous anti-Islam film posted on YouTube.
  • (6) A crowned effigy of the justice secretary, Chris Grayling , as King John clamped in the stocks was carried past parliamenton Monday as the government-backed Global Law summit celebrated the approaching 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
  • (7) There’s was lots of stuff going on there – arrests, burning effigies – and not a peep in the press.
  • (8) Some women carried an effigy of a female version of the Philippine president, Benigno Aquino III, which will later be burnt in opposition to his policies, especially regarding issues such as aid distribution in the aftermath of typhoon Haiyan and privatisation of hospitals in the city.
  • (9) They brandished an effigy of the head of the ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
  • (10) The statement also rebuffed the proposal of dialogue with the South again, saying it would refuse talks unless Seoul apologised for its "monstrous criminal act" – a protest by 250 people in the capital on Monday during which effigies of the North's former leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, were burned.
  • (11) "No," reassured Lynch, "Eigg's sea name is Isle of the Big Women, so most probably it will be an effigy of a woman with giant boobies."
  • (12) They really don’t have the kinds of problems that they are protesting about that deserve the burning of effigies.
  • (13) In his Sunday Telegraph article, Paterson said Greenpeace burned an effigy of him and that he received death threats.
  • (14) Sussex police said they had been withdrawn following complaints on social media, but pictures emerged of one of the effigies at the centre of a fireworks display.
  • (15) Was this an ordinary car wreck, or were the two women, who had previously been threatened, shot at and burned in effigy because of their efforts to register black voters, targetted on that road?
  • (16) Here are some photos from the scenes: A group of demonstrators hold a mock coffin with an effigy of Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy during a protest against Spanish government austerity measures, on 15 September 2012.
  • (17) At one point, angry locals even burned an effigy of him.
  • (18) Is it an effigy of a sad girl looking defeated made out of pistachio sponge and marzipan?
  • (19) But it seems that the Salmond effigies were spared the flames after complaints were made.
  • (20) They threw rotten eggs and stones at the embassy compound, and the effigy was set on fire before being thrown over the high walls.

Effigy


Definition:

  • (n.) The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Will I get burnt to death in a giant effigy of a man woven from wicker?"
  • (2) Rybak was indicted for inciting hatred last year after burning an effigy of an orthodox Jew during a protest against Muslim immigration.
  • (3) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
  • (4) Today, they pitch up outside Buxton Opera House, unpack an 8ft effigy of Big Ben and an even bigger gibbet, and – oh, yes – hang parliament.
  • (5) There has been little media interest in the campaign, with some of the most recent reports about the US president concerning the burning of effigies of him to protest against a blasphemous anti-Islam film posted on YouTube.
  • (6) A crowned effigy of the justice secretary, Chris Grayling , as King John clamped in the stocks was carried past parliamenton Monday as the government-backed Global Law summit celebrated the approaching 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
  • (7) There’s was lots of stuff going on there – arrests, burning effigies – and not a peep in the press.
  • (8) Some women carried an effigy of a female version of the Philippine president, Benigno Aquino III, which will later be burnt in opposition to his policies, especially regarding issues such as aid distribution in the aftermath of typhoon Haiyan and privatisation of hospitals in the city.
  • (9) They brandished an effigy of the head of the ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
  • (10) The statement also rebuffed the proposal of dialogue with the South again, saying it would refuse talks unless Seoul apologised for its "monstrous criminal act" – a protest by 250 people in the capital on Monday during which effigies of the North's former leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, were burned.
  • (11) "No," reassured Lynch, "Eigg's sea name is Isle of the Big Women, so most probably it will be an effigy of a woman with giant boobies."
  • (12) They really don’t have the kinds of problems that they are protesting about that deserve the burning of effigies.
  • (13) In his Sunday Telegraph article, Paterson said Greenpeace burned an effigy of him and that he received death threats.
  • (14) Sussex police said they had been withdrawn following complaints on social media, but pictures emerged of one of the effigies at the centre of a fireworks display.
  • (15) Was this an ordinary car wreck, or were the two women, who had previously been threatened, shot at and burned in effigy because of their efforts to register black voters, targetted on that road?
  • (16) Here are some photos from the scenes: A group of demonstrators hold a mock coffin with an effigy of Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy during a protest against Spanish government austerity measures, on 15 September 2012.
  • (17) At one point, angry locals even burned an effigy of him.
  • (18) Is it an effigy of a sad girl looking defeated made out of pistachio sponge and marzipan?
  • (19) But it seems that the Salmond effigies were spared the flames after complaints were made.
  • (20) They threw rotten eggs and stones at the embassy compound, and the effigy was set on fire before being thrown over the high walls.

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