ectype
noun
a reproduction; copy (opposed to prototype).
ectypal
-
a word derived from
ectype.
Example Sentences
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In all instances which we have ever seen, ideas are copied from real objects, and are ectypal, not archetypal, to express myself in learned terms: You reverse this order, and give thought the precedence.
From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
Do I not acknowledge a twofold state of things—the one ectypal or natural, the other archetypal and eternal?
From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley
Presently, his eye rested on her finger-ring, a cameo with what looked like an ectypal miniature of the "Ecce Homo."
From The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution by James Francis Barrett
