(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.
Propound
Definition:
(v. t.) To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question; to propound an argument.
(v. t.) To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.
Example Sentences:
(1) A critical review of these regimens quickly reveals that the majority are propounded with considerably more confidence than statistical proof of their efficacy.
(2) This paper, presented as part of a panel on the subject, has propounded the view that the defense is unconscionable, using that aspect of the definition dealing with unreasonableness.
(3) While the classical theory of menstrual reflux easily accounts for the genital locations, other theories, notably metaplasia, have been propounded to explain more remote locations.
(4) We can see from the examples discussed that there are many instances where principles, guidelines, rules or laws propounded for the benefit of one party may restrain autonomy, beneficence and justice done to another.
(5) In 1975 in southern Tamil Nadu, an aged practitioner of Ayurveda conducted for the author's benefit a series of lectures about cancer, in which he propounded his own idiosyncratic theory regarding the nature of this disease.
(6) This conclusion is contrary to that which has been propounded to explain the nonlinear dose curves obtained for specific locus mutations.
(7) Various theories about its pathogenesis have been propounded.
(8) A purely catabolic function of 5'-nucleotidase, as propounded in the literature, seems dubious since high 5'-nucleotidase activity was demonstrated in rapidly proliferating tissue too.
(9) Various theories on the best therapy have been propounded in the literature.
(10) In the light of two case-histories, one of which never published before, and on the basis of the Freudian theory of masochism, an interpretation of the data is propounded.
(11) This phenomenon is interpreted in the framework of an ongoing intergroup interaction among patients and between patients and staff, as conceptualized in the Tavistock Model propounded by Bion.
(12) However already propounded several years earlier by Leonhard, a distinction between bipolar and unipolar affective disorders has first been taken into general consideration during the last quarter of a century.
(13) In my book published in Paris (1986) I propound a new, radically different approach which takes into account Man's whole lifespan, without separating the various ages, and without separating old age from those that precede it.
(14) The pathoanatomic view ascribed to Virchow and propounded by Thomas Szasz has coexisted with the patient-centered or phenomenologic view for millenia.
(15) A clinical and mythological analysis is propounded.
(16) The efficacy of autogenous dermal grafts for carotid artery protection in head and neck surgery has been investigated experimentally and propounded clinically.
(17) The fact that I was originally one half of a duo gave rise to a theory, much propounded in newspaper profiles, that my life has been one desperate effort to compensate for that stillborn brother.
(18) On the basis of the analysis of five original and of 181 previously published observations since 1975: the histological, histogenetic, evolutive and epidemiologic patterns of renal angiomyolipoma are exposed; the symptoms at presentation and the clinical manifestations are analysed; some morbid associations of this affection are considered and, particularly, its particular relationship with the tuberous sclerosis is debated; the diagnosis of these angiomyolipomas is studied with special regard to the role of modern radiologic explorations; finally, is propounded a therapeutic codification, which relies mainly on surgery.
(19) Since the term traumatic pseudolipoma of the buccal mucosa was originally propounded to describe a traumatic herniation of the buccal fat pad, five additional cases have been reported.
(20) The traditional teaching of the subject in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Rosario National University, Santa Fe, Rosario, Argentina, up to 1974 is subjected to critical analysis, and on this basis the need for the innovation is propounded and the method for applying it proposed.