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verb

Symbolize 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."

To represent by a symbol or symbols.

Symbolize v. i. (past & past part. symbolized; pres. part. symbolizing)

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." "They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses."

To hold the same faith; to agree. (R.) "The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them."

To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.

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Etymology of 'Symbolize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Symbolize" Quotes from Famous Books

... table sat the Trapper, Wild Bill at the other. The woman's chair was at the center of one of the sides, so that she sat facing the fire, whose generous flames might well symbolize the abundance which amid cold and hunger had so suddenly come to her. On her right hand the two girls sat; on her left, the boy. A goodly table, a goodly fire, and a goodly company,—what more could the Angel ...

— Holiday Tales - Christmas in the Adirondacks • W. H. H. Murray

... - the future builders of the Western country. She has crossed the cactus-covered plains, has endured the greatest hardships, that she may rear her sturdy little ones to lay the foundations of a mighty Western empire. The bulls' heads are symbolic of sacrifice; oak leaves symbolize strength. She is best seen in ...

— Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts • Juliet James

... parts[1]. Moreover a description of all the allegorical statues and figures that adorn particularly the inferior parts of the building, would be here so much the more superfluous, as an intelligent spectator may easily understand them. All these fine ornaments are meant to symbolize the mysteries of Redemption, taken from the principal facts in Scripture and from the fundamental doctrines of the christian faith. In this respect the lower tier is the most remarkable; the middle one has neither the same beauty nor the same religious signification; the third is the least ...

— Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg • Anonymous

... with regard to these secondary emotions. Here it has not emancipated itself sufficiently from the model of the stage. Those emotions arise, of course, in the audience of a theater too, but the dramatic stage cannot embody them. In the opera the orchestra may symbolize them. For the photoplay, which is not bound to the physical succession of events but gives us only the pictorial reflection, there is an unlimited field for the expression of these ...

— The Photoplay - A Psychological Study • Hugo Muensterberg

... their wearers, or the confused motions of some of our inferior fellow-creatures that flutter from side to side of the road as intimidating objects fail on the eyes planted on opposite sides of their heads, feebly symbolize these human displays of unstable equilibrium. We must adapt our method to circumstances; but the apostolic rule, of "All things to all men," should not touch, as in Paul it never did, the fundamental consistency of principle which is the chief sign of spiritual life. The degree of elevation ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 • Various

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