Effingo, effingis, effinxi. effictum, effingere. Ci. To make like: to expresse or deuise the forme or likenes of.Effingere & efficere.Cic.To deuise and make.Similitudinem effingere exvero. Plin. iu. To represent or expresse the forme of a thing linely.Animo effingere aliquid.Cic.To deuise in the minde howe a thing is to imagine.Casus aliquos effingere in auro.Virg.To worke or graue in gold certaine stories.Sui dissimilia effingere natura non potest. C. Nature cannot worke or make.Figuras varias effingere. Lucan. Exprimere & effingere verbis. Author ad Her. To expresse or descriue in wordes.Effingere mores. Cice. To represent or expresse maners and conditions.Mores oratoris effingit oratio.Cic.The oratours wordes represent his maners.Formas & mores ab aliquibus effingere. Ci. To resemble such fashions and conditions as they saw in otherEffingit senem signum illud. Pli. iu. That image represÊteth. or resembleth an old man.Verba effingere imitando conabitur. Quin. By imitating he shal indeuour to expresse or resemble his words: or to vse % same words.Effingere vim alicuius docti hominis. Quint. To expresse or shew in his writing the like force and pith that another lerned man hath vsed.Vim Demosthenis Cicero effinxit. Quint.
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ef-fingo, finxi, fictum, 3, v. a., orig., to work out by pressing = fingendo exprimere, e)kma/ssein (v. fingo).—Hence, I.To form, fashion (artistically—class.; most freq. in the trop. sense; cf.: formo, informo, conformo, fingo, reddo, instituo, etc.). A.Lit.: oris lineamenta in tabula: Veneris Coae pulchritudinem aspersione fortuita, Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23: sui dissimilia, id. N. D. 3, 9, 23: deum imagines in species hominum, Tac. H. 5, 5 et saep.—Poet.: (Daedalus) casus alicujus in auro, Verg. A. 6, 32; cf. id. ib. 10, 640; Luc. 5, 713: horrentes effingens crine galeros, Sil. 1, 404.—B.Trop., to express, represent, portray: (natura) speciem ita formavit oris, ut in ea penitus reconditos mores effingeret, Cic. Leg. 1, 9; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 16, 47; id. de Or. 2, 43 fin.; Tac. A. 11, 14; Quint. 6, 2, 17: oratorem effingere (connected with corpora fingendo efficere), id. 5, 12, 21: effinge aliquid et excude (sc. scribendo), quod sit perpetuo tuum, Plin. Ep. 1, 3, 4: imaginem virtutis,
to represent by imitation
, Quint. 10, 2, 15; cf. id. 10, 1, 108; 11, 3, 89 sq.; Plin. Ep. 9, 22, 2.—Of the conception of external objects: visum impressum effictumque ex eo, unde esset, id. Ac. 2, 6, 18; cf. id. Tusc. 1, 25, 61; id. de Or. 2, 86 fin.— II.To wipe clean, wipe out (only in the foll. passages): fiscinas spongia effingat, Cato R. R. 67, 2 (for which: fiscinas spongia tergendas, Plin. 15, 6, 6, 22): spongiis sanguinem, Cic. Sest. 35 fin., v. Halm ad h. l.—III.To rub gently, stroke: manus, Albin. Cons. ad Liv. 138; Ov. H. 20, 134 (for which: manus fingere, id. F. 5, 409).