'Typify' definitions:
Definition of 'typify'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Typify'
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 'typify'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advert to,
- allude to,
- augur,
- be taken as,
- betoken,
- body forth,
- characterize,
- denominate,
- denote,
- designate,
- divine,
- emblematize,
- embody,
- epitomize,
- evince,
- exemplify,
- figure,
- finger,
- foretoken,
- hint,
- illustrate,
- indicate,
- instance,
- mean,
- mirror,
- model,
- name,
- personify,
- pick out,
- point at,
- point out,
- point to,
- prefigure,
- preindicate,
- presign,
- presignal,
- presignify,
- pretypify,
- refer to,
- represent,
- select,
- signify,
- specify,
- spell,
- stand for,
- stigmatize,
- suggest,
- symbol,
- symbolize,
- token