typifying

Typify \Typ"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Typified}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Typifying}.] [Type + -fy.]
   1. To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.
      [1913 Webster]

            Our Savior was typified, indeed, by the goat that
            was slain, and the scapegoat in the wilderness.
                                                  --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To embody the essential or salient characteristics of; to
      be the type of; as, the genus {Rosa} typifies the family
      {Rosaceae}, which in turn typifies the series {Rosales}.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "typifying":
      apish, delineatory, depictive, echoic, embodying, figurative,
      graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative,
      incarnating, limning, mimetic, mimish, onomatopoeic, personifying,
      pictographic, pictorial, portraying, representational,
      representative, representing, simulative, symbolizing, vivid