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Definition of Emblematize
1. v. t. To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize.
Definition of Emblematize
1. Verb. (transitive) To stand as an emblem for; to represent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emblematize
1. [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]
Medical Definition of Emblematize
1. To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize. "Anciently the sun was commonly emblematized by a starry or radiate figure." (Bp. Hurd) Origin: Emblematized; Emblematizing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emblematize
Literary usage of Emblematize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... light effusions of national life which blend up love and flowers and sunshine
together so pleasantly, and seem to emblematize the people who sing them. ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... (em-blem'-^-tist) n. ». A writer or inventer of emblem«.
To emblematize, (em-blem'-V'i«:) vo To represent by an emblem. ..."
3. The Works of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb (1871)
"I do not exactly see why the goose and little goslings should emblematize a Quaker
poet that has no children. But after all perhaps it is a pelican. ..."
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