The Collaborative International Dictionary
Typify \Typ"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Typified; p. pr. & vb. n. Typifying.] [Type + -fy.]
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To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.
Our Savior was typified, indeed, by the goat that was slain, and the scapegoat in the wilderness.
--Sir T. Browne. To embody the essential or salient characteristics of; to be the type of; as, the genus Rosa typifies the family Rosace[ae], which in turn typifies the series Rosales.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: typify)
WordNet
v. embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; "The fugue typifies Bach's style of composition" [syn: epitomize, epitomise]
express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol; "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?" [syn: symbolize, symbolise, stand for, represent]
[also: typified]
See typify
Usage examples of "typified".
Of this city which served as an image, and of that free city it typified, Paul writes to the Galatians in these terms: "Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
For the highest and complete terrestrial duty of the city of God, which is a stranger in this world, is that which was exemplified in the individual who was begotten by him who typified the resurrection of the murdered Abel.
For both the substitution in the ministry of God, on Eli’s rejection as priest, of Samuel, who executed at once the office of priest and judge, and the establishment of David in the kingdom, when Saul was rejected, typified this of which I speak.
But what follows pertains to that Priest whom Samuel typified by succeeding this one.
But it was typified by the rebuilding of that temple for this reason, because the very renovation of that edifice typifies in the prophetic oracle another testament which is called the new.
But where all parts of the first-generation Veritechs participated in reconfiguration, the augmentation packs and energy generators of the Armored Alphas (essential for the space and ground missions that typified the Expeditionary Force) remained intact during the process.