effingat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →effingo, effingere, effinxi, effictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
fashion, form, mold; represent, portray, depict; copy; wipe away;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...contumelia, laudetur sine adulatione, ad quorum se similitudinem effingat. Solemus dicere non fuisse in nostra potestate quos sortiremur..." - M
Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...docilis naturae, sic tamen ut ea quae discit effingat, non habitum forte et ingressum et si quid..." - G
Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...nunc informet Martem castamve Minervam, nunc Venerem effingat, nunc Veneris puerum; utque sacri fontes non sola incendia sistunt..."