emblazonment

[Eng. emblazon; -ment.] 1. The act or art of blazoning; blazonry. 2. That which is blazoned; heraldic representations or decorations. ěm-blāz-on-ry, s . [Eng. emblazon ; -ry.] 1. The art of emblazoning. 2. Heraldic representations or decorations. "Who saw the banner reared on high In all its dread emblazonry ." Words worth: White Doe of Rylstone, iii. ěm-blěm, s . [Fr. emblême ; from Lat. emblema =a kind of ornament; Gr. embléma a thing put on; a kind of movable ornament: emballo to put on; em =on, and ballo =to place, to put.] 1. That which is inlaid or put on; inlaid or mosaic work or decoration; enamel. "Above the corner in a curious fret, Emblems, impre as, hieroglyphics set." Daniel: Barons' Wars, bk. vi. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia emblem 2. A symbolical figure or composition, which conceals a moral or historical allegory; an allusive picture or representation. "Pleased she beheld aloft portrayed On many a splendid wall, Emblems of health and heavenly aid, And George the theme of all." Cowper : Queen's Visit to London, March, 1789. 3. A symbol, a device, a type, a figure; an object, or figure, or representation of an object symbolizing some other object, quality, or the like. Thus, an ape symbolized malice and lust; an apple, the fall of man and original sin; a swine, gluttony; a pelican, piety and the Redeemer's love for the world; a crown, royalty; a balance, justice; . "Books of emblems were very popular in the sixteenth century, in which all nature was ransacked for types of virtues and vices."- Fairholt . For the difference between emblem and figure , SCO FIGURE. *ăm-blěm, v . t . [EMBLEM, 8.] To represent or symbolize in an occult or allusive manner; to picture by an emblem. "The primitive sight of elements doth fitly emblem that of op.nions." -Glanvill. Scepsis Scientific a .