'Typifying' definitions:
Definition of 'Typifying'
From: GCIDE
- Typify \Typ"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Typified; p. pr. & vb. n. Typifying.] [Type + -fy.]
- 1. To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance. [1913 Webster]
- Our Savior was typified, indeed, by the goat that was slain, and the scapegoat in the wilderness. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To embody the essential or salient characteristics of; to be the type of; as, the genus Rosa typifies the family Rosaceae, which in turn typifies the series Rosales. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'typifying'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apish,
- delineatory,
- depictive,
- echoic,
- embodying,
- figurative,
- graphic,
- ideographic,
- illustrational,
- illustrative,
- imitative,
- incarnating,
- limning,
- mimetic,
- mimish,
- onomatopoeic,
- personifying,
- pictographic,
- pictorial,
- portraying,
- representational,
- representative,
- representing,
- simulative,
- symbolizing,
- vivid