effigyEF'FIGY, n. [L. effigies, from effingo, to fashion; ex and fingo, to form or devise.] To burn or hang in effigy, is to burn or hang an image or picture of the person intended to be executed, disgraced or degraded. In France,when a criminal cannot be apprehended, his picture is hung on a gallows or gibbet, at the bottom of which is written his sentence of condemnation. |