what is an effigy
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effigy 1. effigy-a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln; the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone. simulacrum, image. Guy-an effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day. graven image, idol, god-a material effigy that is worshipped; thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image; money was his god. representation-a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something.
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Excretion Egestion is the act of excreting unusable or undigested material from a cell, as in the case of single-celled organisms, or from the digestive tract of multicellular animals. As defined above, elimination broadly defines the mechanisms of waste disposal by living systems at all levels of complexity.
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How Much Does a Mausoleum Cost? A niche is the structure that will accommodate urns that contain cremated remains. After the urn entombment, a niche front of granite, marble, bronze, glass, or wood is attached. The many options for mausoleums exist as they do for gravestones.
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- The definition of a soffit is the underside of a piece of architecture. An example of a soffit is the underside of an arch. soffit. the horizontal underside of an eave, cornice, etc. soffit.
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Assemblage (art) Assemblage is an artistic form or medium usually created on a defined substrate that consists of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate. It is similar to collage, a two-dimensional medium.he origin of the word (in its artistic sense) can be traced back to the early 1950s, when Jean Dubuffet created a series of collages of butterfly wings, which he titled assemblages d'empreintes. However, both Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso and others had been working with found objects for many years prior to Dubuffet.
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organ An organ is a part of your body that performs a specific function: like your brain, lungs, or skin. You might not use the word organ often, but you use organs every second — imagine getting through a day without your heart or skin. An organ may also serve a specific function for an institution: a periodical like a newsletter can be an organ of an organization.
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Window A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof or vehicle that allows the passage of light, sound, and/or air. Modern windows are usually glazed or covered in some other transparent or translucent material, a sash set in a frame in the opening; the sash and frame are also referred to as a window.
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- 490 Lincoln St. A Cremation Niche is a personalized, above ground space where a loved ones urn is placed inside and sealed. Santa Clara Mission Cemetery offers many Niche choices and locations throughout the cemetery. Choices include single, double, and 4-place indoor, outdoor, glass, marble or granite fronts. Indoor glass front niches, located in both St. Clare Chapel and St. Joseph Mausoleum, provide a unique viewing of the urn, a framed photo, and other small family tributes placed with the urn.
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Choir (architecture) Choir (architecture) For other uses, see Choir (disambiguation). A choir, also sometimes called quire, is the area of a church or cathedral that provides seating for the clergy and church choir. It is in the western part of the chancel, between the nave and the sanctuary, which houses the altar and Church tabernacle.
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Coffin A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation. The word took two different paths, cofin in Old French originally meaning basket, became coffin in English and became couffin in modern French which nowadays means a cradle.
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soffit Definition of soffit. : the underside of a part or member of a building (as of an overhang or staircase); especially : the intrados of an arch.
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Barn A barn is an agricultural building usually located on farms and used for various purposes. In the North American area, a barn refers to structures that house livestock, including cattle and horses, as well as equipment and fodder, and often grain. As a result, the term barn is often qualified e.g. tobacco barn, dairy barn, sheep barn, potato barn.
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10 Examples of Chemical Reactions in Everyday Life Aerobic cellular respiration is the opposite process of photosynthesis in that energy molecules are combined with oxygen we breathe to release energy needed by our cells plus carbon dioxide and water. Energy used by cells is chemical energy in the form of ATP.
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- Technically, a soffit is the underside of any element of a building. So there are soffits on ceilings, stairs, and even cornices. The most common type, however, is found in the area under the eaves on the exterior of the house.
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Chimney A chimney is a structure that provides ventilation for hot flue gases or smoke from a boiler, stove, furnace or fireplace to the outside atmosphere.
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sculpture Sculpture is a type of artwork that's two- or three-dimensional, so you can see it from different sides. You can make sculpture from clay, marble, wood, and even mashed potatoes, though the potato kind might not make it into an art museum. From the Latin sculpere to carve, sculpture often is carved out of a block of wood, stone, or other material. Statues and outdoor artworks are one type of sculpture, and they are freestanding — you can walk around them, under them, or even over them.
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What is Conceit? Conceit is a literary and rhetorical term for an elaborate or strained figure of speech, usually a metaphor or simile. Also called a strained metaphor or radical metaphor.
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Effigy Mounds National Monument However, mounds in the shape of mammals, birds, or reptiles, known as effigies, only exist in southern Wisconsin, northeast Iowa, and small parts of Minnesota and Illinois.
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- Worcestershire, England. Life sized effigie and sarcophagus of (Knight) Sir Thomas de Astley, inside the Church of ST. John The Baptist in Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England.He and his wife Edith.ife sized effigie and sarcophagus of (Knight) Sir Thomas de Astley, inside the Church of ST. John The Baptist in Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England. He and his wife Edith.
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Rendering (animal products) Rendering a beached whale in California. Rendering is a process that converts waste animal tissue into stable, value-added materials. Rendering can refer to any processing of animal products into more useful materials, or, more narrowly, to the rendering of whole animal fatty tissue into purified fats like lard or tallow. Rendering can be carried out on an industrial, farm, or kitchen scale.
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Effigy It is common to burn an effigy of a person (burn in effigy) as an act of protest. The word first appeared in 1539 and comes, perhaps via French, from the Latin effigies, meaning representation.. This spelling was originally used in English for singular senses; even a single image was the effigies of ....
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Shabti, Shawabti and Ushabti However, this practice was quickly seen as unnecessary and wasteful, and instead symbolic images of servants were painted inside tombs to aid the deceased in the afterworld. This practice developed into the use of small statuettes known as Shabti (Shabtiu, Shabty, Shawabti or Ushabti).A Shabti is a small human figure representing a person who would perform a given task for the deceased in the afterlife.The Amduat (underworld) included tracts of land granted to the deceased by the sun god Ra from which the blessed dead could receive their nourishment.ater on Shawabti (and Ushabti) were inscribed with a magical formula which would activate them (see below). Shabti were made from various materials including; faience, wax, clay, wood, stone, terracotta and, occasionally, glass and bronze.
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Gibbeting A gibbet /ˈdʒɪbɪt/ is any instrument of public execution (including guillotine, executioner's block, impalement stake, hanging gallows, or related scaffold), but gibbeting refers to the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of executed criminals were hanged on public display to deter other existing or potential ...
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Nun A nun is a member of a religious community of women, typically one living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
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- Gas prices dropped in 45 states and Washington, D.C. over the past week, though several states did post increases (Indiana +9 cents, Utah +3 cents, Ohio +3 cents, Missouri +1 cent, and Idaho up fractions of a penny).
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heifer A heifer is a young cow. If you work on a farm, you might be tempted to adopt the smallest heifer as your pet, based on cuteness alone. Heifers are female cows who have not yet given birth to a calf. Farmers can raise heifers for dairy or for meat. Since then, it took on the meaning of a female who is obese.