centi-. prefix. 1. denoting one hundredthSymbol: c: centimetre. 2. denoting a hundred: centipede.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Effigy. An effigy is a representation of a specific person, especially in the form of sculpture or some other three-dimensional medium. Effigies are common elements of funerary art, especially as a recumbent effigy in stone or metal placed on a tomb.
It is common to burn an effigy of a person (burn in effigy) as an act of protest. The word first appeared in 1539 and comes, perhaps via French, from the Latin effigies, meaning representation.. This spelling was originally used in English for singular senses; even a single image was the effigies of ....