Representative

01 a. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.

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Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
2.
Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.
3.
Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
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Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.(Nat.Hist.)
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Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.(Metaph.) See: Presentative, Represent

02 n. One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.

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One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.
“A statute of Rumor, whispering an idiot in the ear, who was the representative of Credulity.” — Addison.

“Difficulty must cumber this doctrine which supposes that the perfections of God are the representatives to us of whatever we perceive in the creatures.” — Locke.
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An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.
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One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.(Law)
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A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress.[U.S.]
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That which presents the full character of the type of a group.(Nat.Hist.)