Obs. [ad. L. effātum, f. ef-fāri to speak out.] A saying, dictum, maxim. Also ǁ Effatum (pl. effata).
1650. Elderfield, Tythes, 154. Their effata or most reverenced contents equalled by parliament to the oracles of the common law.
1678. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, III. 177. The effates of Scripture seem to contradict themselves.
1685. Boyle, Enq. Notion Nat., 294. The Effatum, That Nature abhors a Vacuum, agrees with neither of the two great Sects of the Modern Philosophers.
1690. Norris, Beatitudes (1694), I. 118. That common Theological Effate, Grace is Glory begun.
