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
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..."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..."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..."