And I ;hasten to admit I don't remember seeing it before. There used to be a popular form
of social or political protest - to hang someone in effigy = suspend from a lamp post
a dummy with some identifying features of the fillain, with an appropriate placard.

Effigiate (from ATRFL Webster 1913)

Ef*fig"i*ate (?), v. t. [L. effigiatus, p. p. of effigiare to form, fr. effigies. See Effigy.] To form as an effigy; hence, to fashion;
to adapt.

[He must] effigiate and conform himself to those circumstances. Jer. Taylor.