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Definition of Symbolic
1. Adjective. Relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols. "Symbolic thinking"
2. Adjective. Serving as a visible symbol for something abstract. "The spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish"
Similar to: Representative
Derivative terms: Emblem, Emblem, Emblem, Symbol, Symbol
3. Adjective. Using symbolism. "Symbolic art"
Definition of Symbolic
1. n. See Symbolics.
2. a. Of or pertaining to a symbol or symbols; of the nature of a symbol; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; representative; as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge.
Definition of Symbolic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to a symbol. ¹
2. Adjective. Referring to something with an implicit meaning. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Symbolic
1. pertaining to a symbol [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Symbolic
Literary usage of Symbolic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Electrical Engineering Problems by Francis Cary Caldwell (1914)
"Required symbolic expressions for the following vectors at the angles given: ...
Obtain symbolic expressions for emf's of 20 volts, making + 30 degrees with ..."
2. Invariants of Quadratic Differential Forms by Joseph Edmund Wright (1908)
"Explanation of the symbolic notation. The remaining method for the determination
of invariants, by means of a symbolic notation, is due to Maschke. ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1907)
"... zones which are divided into squares or parallelograms for ready treatment.
When simple figures— symbolic or non-symbolic—are filled into these spaces, ..."
4. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead (1898)
"symbolic EQUIVALENTS OF SYLLOGISMS. (1) It is better however at once to ...
Also the symbolic equivalence of all the forms of a proposition makes it ..."
5. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"Religious Rites : their purpose practical or symbolic—Prayer: its continuity from
low to high levels of Culture; its lower phases Unethical; ..."
6. The Bases of Design by Walter Crane (1902)
"OF THE symbolic INFLUENCE, OR EMBLEMATIC ELEMENT IN DESIGN THE desire to express and
... There is a symbolic sign (known to archaeologists as the fylfot or ..."
7. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1874)
"Religious Rites : tbeir purpose practical or symbolic—Prayer : its continuity
from low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases Unethical; ..."
8. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1889)
"In part, they are expressive and symbolic performances, the dramatic utterance
of religious thought, the gesture-language of theology. ..."
9. Electrical Engineering Problems by Francis Cary Caldwell (1914)
"Required symbolic expressions for the following vectors at the angles given: ...
Obtain symbolic expressions for emf's of 20 volts, making + 30 degrees with ..."
10. Invariants of Quadratic Differential Forms by Joseph Edmund Wright (1908)
"Explanation of the symbolic notation. The remaining method for the determination
of invariants, by means of a symbolic notation, is due to Maschke. ..."
11. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1907)
"... zones which are divided into squares or parallelograms for ready treatment.
When simple figures— symbolic or non-symbolic—are filled into these spaces, ..."
12. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead (1898)
"symbolic EQUIVALENTS OF SYLLOGISMS. (1) It is better however at once to ...
Also the symbolic equivalence of all the forms of a proposition makes it ..."
13. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"Religious Rites : their purpose practical or symbolic—Prayer: its continuity from
low to high levels of Culture; its lower phases Unethical; ..."
14. The Bases of Design by Walter Crane (1902)
"OF THE symbolic INFLUENCE, OR EMBLEMATIC ELEMENT IN DESIGN THE desire to express and
... There is a symbolic sign (known to archaeologists as the fylfot or ..."
15. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1874)
"Religious Rites : tbeir purpose practical or symbolic—Prayer : its continuity
from low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases Unethical; ..."
16. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1889)
"In part, they are expressive and symbolic performances, the dramatic utterance
of religious thought, the gesture-language of theology. ..."
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