1949, The Tardigrade Fauna of Greenland: A Faunistic Study with Some Few Ecological Remarks
Lobes effigurated (i.e.radially arranged towards the margins).
1998, Peter H. Raven, Kunio Iwatsuki, Floristic Characteristics and Diversity of East Asian Plants: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Floristic Characteristics and Diversity of East Asian Plants, July 25-27, 1996, Kunming, Yunnan, P.R. China, Springer Verlag
As far as I know, it is the only case of effigurated petals in all legumes.
to disfigure; to refigure, to make (someone) into another figure (e.g., that of an animal)edit
2013, Robinson A. Milwood, Western European and British Barbarity, Savagery, and Brutality in the Transatlantic Chattel Slave Trade (→ISBN), pages 337and 366:
[page 337:] In the eyes of the Church to effigurate the Africans was justified. In addition, Christopher Columbus's place and ambition was approved by the Catholic Church, and Columbus massacred the native Indians of America.
[page 366:] The Reparation Movement is a “moral crusade and movement” for justice and reparation for the millions of African slaves that were brutalized, animalized and effigurated.
2017, Robinson A. Milwood, The Quest for a Theological Connection with the (African Holocaust) Transatlantic Chattel Slave Trade in Africans, AuthorHouse (→ISBN)
Slaves were stripped naked and placed in enclosures or pens with cows, goats, mules, horses, pigs and sheep because it was their way to effigurate slaves into animals.
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The reduction of Africans as effigurated to that of animals.
2017, Robinson A. Milwood, British Transatlantic Slave Trade—Barbaric Commerce, AuthorHouse (→ISBN):
Africans were effigurated by the slave masters, planters and churches. (They preached God and Jesus Christ to animals) because the British slave trade was based on the concept of a civilizing mission and Christianizing mission to Africans ...
