Crossword clues for symbolize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Symbolize \Sym"bol*ize\, v. t.
To make to agree in properties or qualities.
To make representative of something; to regard or treat as symbolic. ``Some symbolize the same from the mystery of its colors.''
--Sir T. Browne.To represent by a symbol or symbols.
Symbolize \Sym"bol*ize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Symbolized; p. pr. & vb. n. Symbolizing.] [Cf. F. symboliser.]
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To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
The pleasing of color symbolizeth with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth symbolize with harmony.
--Bacon.They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
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To hold the same faith; to agree. [R.]
The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.
--G. S. Faber. To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "represent by a symbol," also "be a symbol of," from French symboliser, from symbole (see symbol). Related: Symbolized; symbolizes; symbolizing.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To be symbolic of; to represent.
WordNet
v. express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol; "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?" [syn: typify, symbolise, stand for, represent]
represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols; "The poet symbolizes love in this poem"; "These painters believed that artists should symbolize" [syn: symbolise]
Usage examples of "symbolize".
Appalled but fascinated by the bound feet of her amah and other Chinese women, she understood, even as a child, that this barbaric custom symbolized male supremacy.
We became convinced that we symbolized the future, in which an integrated neuroscience would emerge as a result of just such combinations of different brain and behavioural sciences.
The two favorite studies of my youth were botany and mineralogy, and subsequently, when I learned that the use of simples frequently explained the whole history of a people, and the entire life of individuals in the East, as flowers betoken and symbolize a love affair, I have regretted that I was not a man, that I might have been a Flamel, a Fontana, or a Cabanis.
And yet, despite all thisthe binational bureaucratic cult, the old-style corporatism that survived the passage from war to peace, the mystique of nonaccountability symbolized by the sovereign, the stunted aspects of the new imperial democracyMacArthur was quite accurate when he spoke of a society that had undergone significant change.
Obviously, the three points symbolize, to him, the Triple Revolution document, the historic dating point of the beginning of our era, which Chib claims to hate so.
From the moment that the divinity of Christ is denied, or that, thanks to the efforts of German ideology, He only symbolizes the man-god, the concept of mediation disappears and a Judaic world reappears.
It was originally a simple Cross, symbolizing the equator and equinoctial Colure, and the four elements proceeding from a common centre.
Caduceus originally symbolized the equator and equinoctial Colure, 503-u.
Bill was interested in, more than the folklorish aspects of the alien, was how it had come to symbolize in the collective unconscious the need for mass evolution.
Thus lightly and reverently has the master touched the mystery of the Blessed Trinity: the goldfinch symbolizing by its colours, the trefoil by the form of its leaf.
Until Lotto brought home those bones, and they came to symbolize all the losses, all the mysteries, in her life.
The notationists say their number is potentially infinite, and this must be so, for reality itself may be sliced up, viewed, symbolized and reassembled into concepts of infinitely refined nuance and profundity.
They rode into Takar at the head of the company, flags held high, symbolizing their victory.
The most unusual point about the structure of the thyroxine molecule is the fact that it contains four iodine atoms, symbolized in the formula above by I.
The Hebrew allegory of the Fall of Man, which is but a special variation of a universal legend, symbolizes one of the grandest and most universal allegories of science.