Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A reproduction or copy of an original; a copy: opposed to prototype.
- noun Specifically In architecture, a copy in relief or embossed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence
- noun A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely).
- noun A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun philosophy A
copy ; usually contrasted with the original, orarchetype .
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Examples
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For we cannot imagine that the next ten thousand years will offer its ectype.
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The idea of the prototype or ectype derives from Jean-Baptiste Robinet's post-Spinozist
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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One other issue with early Booster is that a lot of his story is very reminiscent of Superman, and that comparison doesn't flatter Booster at all the proper term is that Booster is a Superman ectype.
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Booster Gold | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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The knowability of the world is explained in terms of the basic Platonic principles of archetype and ectype (form and copy).
The Cambridge Platonists Hutton, Sarah 2007
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For we cannot imagine that the next ten thousand years will offer its ectype.
The First Five Pages Noah Lukeman 2000
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For we cannot imagine that the next ten thousand years will offer its ectype.
The First Five Pages Noah Lukeman 2000
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For we cannot imagine that the next ten thousand years will offer its ectype.
The First Five Pages Noah Lukeman 2000
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DaniWeb IT Discussion Community dietdew12z 2010
qms commented on the word ectype
Warhol had an ingenious plan
To paint a tomato soup can.
He knew to expect hype
And many an ectype.
Call Andy a shrewd businessman.
June 17, 2018