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Pictorial symbol
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emblem
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "relief, raised ornament on vessels, etc.," from Latin emblema "inlaid ornamental work," from Greek emblema (genitive emblematos ) "an insertion," from emballein "to insert," literally "to throw in," from assimilated form of en "in" (see en- (2)) ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An emblem is an abstract or representational pictorial image that represents a concept , like a moral truth , or an allegory , or a person, like a king or saint .
Usage examples of emblem.
Superior spacers wearing hard-suits painted with the sword emblem of the Algol clan.
The Algonkins by no means imagined it the highest god, and at most but one of his emblems.
The Crux Ansata was the particular emblem of Osiris, and his sceptre ended with that figure.
From the pylon top of the temple of Isis that overlooked the courts of that of Ptah and the gilded stable of the bull Apis, with my own eyes I saw the Persians, for in this business the Greeks would have no hand, drag out the sacred beast whom they held to be a god of the Egyptians, though in truth he was but the emblem of the god, or rather of the generating power that is in Nature, and butcher it with jeers and mockery.
Pinckney gently and beadily makes us realize that Satan is the emblem of the nullification of self-blame.
For this man, indeed, the reliques, the trappings, the minaret-crowned monuments, the barbaric chants and gold ornaments, all the thousand rich things that recalled Muscovy and the buried empire to him, and that he loved so dearly, were valuable chiefly because they were the emblems of the time that bore the happy present.
Masonic emblems point to something real which existed in some long-past time, and, as regards the organisation and nomenclature, we find the whole thing in its vital and actual working form in the Comacine Guild.
With the black rod he traced an emblem on the smokey air over the triangle and vibrated a series of barbarous words that were even harsher than the previous Enochian phrase.
An iron fireback rose behind the fire, decorated with the Cardiff heraldic emblem.
If we were to examine all the different ceremonials, their emblems, and their formulas, we should see that all that belongs to the primitive and essential elements of the order, is respected in every sanctuary.
His lithe figure, neat firm footing of the stag, swift intelligent expression, and his ready frolicsomeness, pleasant humour, cordial temper, and his Irishry, whereon he was at liberty to play, as on the emblem harp of the Isle, were soothing to think of.
It was the custom at the Meetings of the Landes Gemeinde, or Diet, to set swords upright in the ground as emblems of authority.
He wore black, silver-trimmed military tunic and trousers, colorful emblems of rank and of the Vach Hallen into which he was born.
And in mid-afternoon came hubbub and hullaballoo from without, as a procession of royal floaters bearing the starburst emblem drew up outside.
The Isiac tablet, describing the Mysteries of Isis, is charged with serpents in every part, as her emblems.