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Webster 1913 Edition
Ectype
1.
(Classical Archæol.)
(a)
A copy, as in pottery, of an artist’s original work. Hence:
(b)
A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely).
2.
A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed.
Some regarded him [Klopstock] as an
ectype
of the ancient prophets. Eng. Cyc. .
Webster 1828 Edition
Ectype
EC'TYPE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
ectype
ectype
English
Noun
ectype (plural ectypes)
- (philosophy) A copy; usually contrasted with the original, or archetype.
- 2001, Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review, Issues 170-172, page 30,
- If my account is correct, both archetypes and ectypes are 'real' insofar as they are composed of ideas of sensation. But I draw a distinction that Johnson does not acknowledge, viz., a distinction between ontological and epistemic ectypes.
- 2004, Jean-Luc Marion, James K. A. Smith (translator), The Crossing of the Visible, page 38,
- The painting traces itself from itself by suddenly appearing in these ectypes. But the ectypes only mark the final accomplishment of this sudden appearance.
- 2008, Ryan L. Showler, Archetypal and Ectypal Ideals in Kant's Practical Philosophy, page 51,
- It is likely that little attention has been paid to the archetype/ectype relationship in Kant scholarship in the English speaking world partly as a result of inconsistent translations of the German terms “Urbild” and “Nachbild” that make it difficult to even notice the relationship.
- 2001, Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review, Issues 170-172, page 30,