Typifying

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

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "typifying":
     apish, delineatory, depictive, echoic, embodying, figurative,
     graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative,
     incarnating, limning, mimetic, mimish, onomatopoeic, personifying,
     pictographic, pictorial, portraying, representational,
     representative, representing, simulative, symbolizing, vivid