What is "symbolise"

Usage examples of "symbolise".

A sunset was just what it might happen to symbolise to him at the time, and his judgments upon events and persons were striking, but they were frequently judgments upon creations of his own imagination, and were not in the least apposite to what was actually before him.

We imagine that our queer official costumery was deliberately devised to symbolise our Republican Simplicity--a quality which we have never possessed, and are too old to acquire now, if we had any use for it or any leaning toward it.

Japanese consider sacred, and which to their minds symbolise long life and prosperity.

The highest proportion of the marchers, however, were wrapped in the traditional mourning robe, the orange that was supposed to symbolise the life giving power of the sun, and the black trim that was a reminder that even the sun was ringed around by darkness.

Apollo, associated with the sun, and Venus, whose love is inverted here to be symbolised by a vulgar marriage and various earthy lusts, lots of sloppy feasting and debauchery.

But that braid also symbolised every occasion on which they had been woken from the dead, at the end of the journey.

I stared with sudden loathing at the lifeless facade of Thirty-two as though it symbolised all those wasted years.

Thus it symbolises the devil, who is ever anxious to carry away our souls to the deserts of hell.

Only then did she point out that, by symbolising, he was beginning to re-integrate his own choo and choi, enabling these two parts of himself to communicate better since the traumatic separation from the choo Shell.

In the twelfth century Attar described the destiny of souls as a flight of birds across the seven valleys of Seeking, Love, Knowledge, Independence, Unity, Stupefaction and Annihilation The final term symbolised the heart lost in the divine Ocean and thenceforth happy.

We could say that Defoe’s career symbolises the conflict between the outer and the inner man, the personality and the soul.

Nor could the giants, as theologists sometimes claim, have been interpolated into the texts later in order to symbolise evil.

These men, taller than most Thibetans and clearly belonging to a stock but little investigated in the outside world, were of a skeletonic leanness which made one wonder whether the doctor had sought to symbolise in them the anatomical models of his college years.