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symbolist|ˈsɪmbəlɪst|
[f. symbol n.1 + -ist; cf. prec. In sense 2 c after F. symboliste.]
1. Ch. Hist. One who holds that the elements in the Eucharist are mere symbols of the body and blood of Christ. Obs. exc. Hist.
1585–7T. Rogers 39 Art. xxviii. (1625) 176 The Symbolists, Figurists, and Significatists, who are of opinion that the faithfull at the Lords Supper, doe receiue nothing but naked, and bare signes. 1839Milman Life Gibbon v. 144 note, An amicable compromise between the Symbolists and Anti-Symbolists of Germany.
2. a. One who uses symbols, or practises symbolism.
1812Southey Omniana I. 48 The whim of some violent symbolist. 1865C. Stanford Symb. Christ vii. 183 ‘My dark and cloudy words, they do but hold The truth, as cabinets enclose the gold.’ So did the Puritan symbolist speak.
b. One who uses written symbols.
1881Venn Symbolic Logic Introd. p. xxxiii, Examples which however simple they may seem to a modern symbolist represent a very great advance beyond the syllogism.
c. One who uses symbolism in art or literature: (a) A painter who aims at symbolizing ideas rather than representing the form or aspect of actual objects; spec. applied to a late nineteenth-century school of painters who used representations of objects and schemes of colour to suggest ideas or states of mind. (b) One of a late nineteenth-century school of French poets who aimed at representing ideas and emotions by indirect suggestion rather than by direct expression, and attached a symbolic meaning to particular objects, words, sounds, etc. (Cf. quots. s.v. symbolism 1 d.) Also attrib.
1888G. Moore Confessions of Young Man vi. 147 Like a white flag fluttering faintly, Symbolists and Decadents appeared. 1892Spectator 30 Jan. 168/1 (heading) Art. At the Old Masters. II. [Dialogue between] A Symbolist [and] an Impressionist. 1894Tablet 27 Jan. 122 Verlaine, and the other French ‘Symbolists’ as they are called, in poetry. 1899A. Symons (title) The Symbolist Movement in Literature. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 497/1 The Symbolist school..aimed at greater freedom, a less strict prosody, and a more musical poetry. 1905Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 16/3 ‘Well, do as you like,’ the symbolist [sc. Boecklin] said, ‘but without a vermilion cow you'll never make a picture of that thing.’ 1907Dublin Rev. Oct. 407 The great Symbolist, Joris Karl Huysmans.
3. One versed in the study or interpretation of symbols or symbolism.
1839T. Mitchell Frogs of Aristoph. Introd. p. lxxxiii, The authorities on which the learned symbolist relies. 1907Westm. Gaz. 20 Feb. 4/3 Blake's ‘Jerusalem’..is not easy reading even to a symbolist confident of his key.
Hence symboˈlistic, -ical adjs., pertaining to or characteristic of a symbolist (esp. in sense 2 c); belonging to or characterized by symbolism; symboˈlistically adv., in the manner of a symbolist; in the way of symbolism.
1864Webster, Symbolistic, Symbolistical, characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry. 1903F. B. Smith How Paris Amuses Itself ii. 42 The pensive, long-haired devotees of the symbolistic school. 1912English Rev. Dec. 86 The scenes..reverting, symbolistically..to the scene started from, where the ‘stranger’ is seen sitting on a bench, scratching the sand with a stick. |