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.
Conservation of an English cadaver tomb. Introduction. The effigy, dating from the 1450s, forms part of a tomb for John Baret and is on loan to the Museum for the exhibition 'Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547' from St Maryâs Church in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. The tomb effigy is carved in limestone.