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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 Berkeley, George

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 Barrett, James Francis

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 Hume, David