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t. [ emblanch'd. It was impo ible that a spot of so deep a dye should be Heylin, Life of Laud, p. 260. emblaze (em-blāz'), v. t.; pret. and pp. em blazed, ppr. emblazing. [ Under foot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broider'd the ground, more colour'd than with stone Of costliest emblem . Milton , P. L., iv. 703. 2. A symbolical design or figure with explana- tory writing; a design or an image suggesting some truth or fact; the expre ion of a thought or idea both in design and in words: as, Quarles's Emblems (a collection of such representations). Works damn'd, of to be damn'd (your father's fault)! Go, purified by flames, ascend the sky.. Not sulphur-tipp'd, emblaze an alehouse fire. emblem The emblems in use during the sixteenth and seventeenth Centuries are sometimes hard to discriminate from the devices; for these, as adopted by men of distinction, were commonly emblematic. See device, 7. Know ye the land where the cypre and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Byron, Bride of Abydos, i. 1. A fit emblem , both of the events in memory of which it is raised, and of the gratitude of those who have reared it. D. Webster , Speech, Bunker Hill, June 17, 1825. 4. An example. [Rare.] (Lord's Day) Comes Mr. Herbert, Mr. Honiwood's man, and dined with me - a very honest, plain, and well-meaning man, I think him to be; and, by his discourse and manner of life, the true emblem of an old ordinary serving-man. Pepys, Diary, II. 159. =Syn. 2 and 3. Emblem, Symbol, Type. Emblem and sym bol refer to tangible objects; type may refer also to an act, as when the lifting up of the brazen serpent (Num. xxi. 8, 9) is said to be a type of the crucifixion, the serpent being a type or emblem of Christ. A symbol is generally an em blem which has become recognized or standard among men; a volume proposing new signs of this sort would be called a "book of emblems "; but an emblem may be a symbol, as the bread and wine at the Lord's supper are more often called emblems than symbols of Christ's death. Symbol is by this rule the appropriate word for the conventional signs in mathematics. Emblem is most often used of moral and religious matters, and type chiefly of religions doctrines, institutions, historical facts, etc. Type in its religious application generally points forward to an antitype. Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainle purity. D. M. Moir, The White Rose. All things are symbols : the external shows Of nature have their image in the mind. Long fellow, The Harvest Moon. Beauty was lent to Nature as the type Of heaven's unspeakable and holy joy. S. J. Hale , Beauty. IMG:content-0369.png:[blocks in formation] emblema (em-blē'mä), n.; pl. emblemata (-matā). [L.: see emblem.] In archæol.: (a) An inlaid emblem or ornament; an ornament in mosaic. (b) An ornament in relief made of some precious metal, fastened upon the surface of a ve el or an article of furniture. In another cla of jewels animals or the human figure were not relieved on a ground, but embo ed and cut out in outline, like the emblemata of later Greek art. C. T. Newton, Art and Archæol., p. 265. emblematic, emblematical (em-ble-mat'ik, -ikal), a. [= F. emblématique = Sp. emblemático = Pg. It. emblematico (cf. D. G. emblematisch = Dan. Sw. emblematisk ) , * emblematic us , emblema , emblem: see emblem .] 1. Pertaining to or constituting an emblem; using or dealing in emblems; symbolic. And wet his brow with hallowed wine, And on his finger given to shine The emblematic gem. Scott , Marmion, iv. 8. And so, because the name (like many names) can be made to yield a fanciful emblematic meaning, Homer must be a myth. De Quincey, Homer, i. 2. Representative Representative by by so some allusion or customary a ociation; suggestive through similarity of qualities or conventional significance: as, crown is emblematic of royalty; whitene is em blematic of purity. Glanced at the legendary Amazon As emblematic of a nobler age. Tennyson , Prince , ii. emblematically (em-ble-mat'i-kal-i), adv. In an emblematic way; by way or means of emblems; in the manner of emblems; by way of allusive representation. Others have spoken emblematically and hieroglyphically; and so did the Egyptians, unto whom the phenix was the hieroglyph ick of the sun. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 12. He took a great stone and put it up under the oak, em blematically joining the two great elements of masonry. Swift.