Typify

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Typify \Typ"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Typified}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Typifying}.] [Type + -fy.]
     1. To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Our Savior was typified, indeed, by the goat that


              was slain, and the scapegoat in the wilderness.
                                                    --Sir T.
                                                    Browne.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To embody the essential or salient characteristics of; to
        be the type of; as, the genus {Rosa} typifies the family
        {Rosaceae}, which in turn typifies the series {Rosales}.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  typify
       v 1: embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical
            example of; "The fugue typifies Bach's style of
            composition" [syn: {epitomize}, {epitomise}]
       2: express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol;
          "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?" [syn: {symbolize},
           {symbolise}, {stand for}, {represent}]
       [also: {typified}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "typify":
     advert to, allude to, augur, be taken as, betoken, body forth,
     characterize, denominate, denote, designate, divine, emblematize,
     embody, epitomize, evince, exemplify, figure, finger, foretoken,
     hint, illustrate, indicate, instance, mean, mirror, model, name,
     personify, pick out, point at, point out, point to, prefigure,
     preindicate, presign, presignal, presignify, pretypify, refer to,
     represent, select, signify, specify, spell, stand for, stigmatize,
     suggest, symbol, symbolize, token