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▪ I. emblazon, v.|ɛmˈbleɪzən|
Also 7 emblazen, imblazon.
[f. en- + blazon v.]
1. trans. To inscribe or portray conspicuously, as on a heraldic shield; to adorn or inscribe with heraldic devices, words, etc. lit. and fig. Sometimes influenced by emblaze v.1
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 54 God..emblazond the aire with the tokens of his terror. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. x. 55 On which..Cupid with his killing bow And cruell shafts emblazond she beheld. 1735Somerville Chase ii. 385 Th' Imperial Standard waves Emblazon'd rich with Gold. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 205 A carriage emblazoned with arms. 1831R. Blakey Free-will (1848) 155 The orbs which emblazon the canopy of heaven. 1872Morley Voltaire (1886) He emblazoned it on a banner.
2. To celebrate, extol, ‘blaze abroad’; to render illustrious.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 18 b, It is better for a Nobleman..to haue his..deedes emblazond by a Poet, than a Citizen. 1629Gaule Pract. The. 31 Requisite it was our..King should have..his Prophets as Heraulds to emblazen his Progresse. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God I. vii. 138 God emblazon'd..His Servants by joyning their Name to His own. 1761New Comp. Festiv. & Fasts xxiv. 213 Prejudice would have prompted to them to emblazon the least appearence of fraud. 1819–30Lingard Hist. Eng. VI. 225 Their success..was emblazoned to catch the eye of the public. 1839Longfellow Coplas de Manr., Heroes emblazoned high to fame.
▪ II. † emˈblazon, n. Obs.
[f. prec. vb.]
The delineation or heraldic description of armorial bearings.
1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 90 b, Erle Mortimers of March his cote..fully descrieth the same without any further emblason. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie 27 Vsing the said French phrases in my emblazons. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry 34 This sort of Emblazon is proper for Ecclesiastical Persons. |