Crossword-Solution: EFFIGIE 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Parfois, plus heureux encore, ils mettent la main sur des mots qui, par un long et universel usage, ont perdu, de temps immémorial, toute trace d'effigie.

Ingredior, advocatur locator, homo effigie et habitu ita adamussim 20 Mercurium referens ut mihi primo quoque congressu furis suspicionem dederit.

Pepys asked Evelyn to sit to Kneller for his portrait which he desired for ‘reasons I had (founded upon gratitude, affection, and esteeme) to covet that in effigie which I most truly value in the original.’ This refers to the well-known portrait, now at Wotton, that has been copied and engraved.

Thus it hapned, that the good old knight who was a constant frequenter of Gods publick service, three times a day, outlived his own monument, and lived to see himself carried in effigie on a souldiers back, to the publick market-place, there to be sported withall, a crew of souldiers going before in procession, some with surplices, some with organ pipes, to make up the solemnity.

Calamis, a sculptor of the fifth century BC, was particularly famous for his statues of horses; see Pliny _NH_ XXXIV 71 'habet simulacrum et benignitas eius ['Praxiteles' generosity is seen in one of his statues']; Calamidis enim quadrigae aurigam suum imposuit, ne melior in equorum effigie defecisse in homine crederetur.