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A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.

A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

A picture taken on a place of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.

f its hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido.

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

lief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing coins, bas-reliefs, etc.

One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy. Cheyne.

f the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera. Dana.

A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.

zed or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so. The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.

A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton.

The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.

thro*po*path"ic*al*ly, adv. The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening. H. Rogers.

A grotesque representation. [Obs.]

That of which the type pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.

An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.

and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the…

ommission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. Circular of Mass. Representatives (1768).

odel from which a thing is made or formed. The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet. Macaulay. Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. South.