the portrait, figure, or exact representation of a person.

is also used for the print or impression of a coin, representing the prince's head who struck it.

to execute or degrade in, denotes the execution or degradation of a condemned contumacious criminal, who cannot be apprehended or seized. In France, they hang a picture on a gallows or gibbet, wherein is represented the criminal, with the quality or manner of the punishment: at the bottom is written the sentence of condemnation. Such persons as are sentenced to death are executed in effigy.