| 单词 |
emblematize |
| 释义 |
emblematize, v.|ɛmˈblɛmətaɪz|
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
1. trans. Of things: To serve as an emblem of; to express or represent mystically, allusively, or allegorically.
1615W. Hull Mirrour of Maiestie 134 The vanity of these fading crownes was emblematized by that solemne ceremonie. c1630Jackson Creed v. §43 A worse error than can rightly be emblematized by Ixion's fabulous imaginations. 1823Lamb in Life & Lett. (1840) xii. 119 The goose and little goslings should emblematise a Quaker poet that has no children. 1870Goulburn Cathedral Syst. iii. 37 The tabernacle and temple worship was framed to emblematize the worship of heaven.
2. Of persons: To represent by means of an emblem; to figure.
1830Moir in Fraser's Mag. II. 408 The American poet, who emblematizes departing man, as folding his mantle round him, and lying down to pleasant dreams. 1854Blackw. Mag. LXXVI. 509, I emblematised civilisation, in the Chinese lady in japan-gilt frame.
Hence emˈblematizing ppl. a.
1751Mrs. Montagu Lett. III. 173 The good man..to an emblematizing genius would have afforded an ample subject. |
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