emblemata

pl. [Greek, pl. of emblema.] [EMBLEM, 8.] Lit.: The figures with which the ancients decorated golden, silver, and even copper ve els, and which could be taken off at pleasure. By the Romans, ornaments of this kind were called Crustæ. ěm-blěm-at-ic, ěm-blěm-at'-Ic-al, a. [Fr. emblériatique ; Ital. emblematico .] 1. Pertaining to, using, or dealing in emblems. "Come on, sir, to our worthy friends explain What does your emblematic worship mean." Prior: Merry Andrew. 2. Of the nature of am emblem; comprising an emblem, symbol, or type; allusive. "In one small emblematic landscape see How vast a distance 'twixt thy foe and thee." Savage : The Wanderer, с. 1. ěm-blăm-at-Ic-al-ly, adv . [Eng. emblematical ; -ly.] By way or means of an emblem; in the manner of an emblem; allusively, symbolically. "Others have spoken emblematically and hierogliphically, as to the Egyptians; and the phenix was the hierogliphic of the sun."-Browne: Vulgar Errors , i., ch. xii. *ěm-blěm-at-I-çize, v . t . [Eng. emblematic; -ize.] To represent emblematically or by an emblem; to emblematize. "Which he generally endeavored to emblematicize by genii and cupids." - Walpole : Anecdotes , vol. iv., ch. 3.