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单词 emblematical
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emblematicaladj.

Etymology: < emblematic adj. + -al suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: embleˈmatical.
= emblematic adj.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [adjective]
figural?a1500
sacramental1534
shadowing1579
hieroglyphical1581
similitudinary1581
morala1616
symbolical1620
characterical1634
shadowy1641
emblematical1644
emblematic1645
hieroglyphic1647
symbolic1681
emblematizing1751
tokening1820
imagerial1837
twi-necked1840
personating1851
symptomatic1853
symbolizing1909
uroboric1958
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 77 A spice of their authority more strong then their emblematicall Mace.
1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) i. ii. 45 An emblematical representation of God's unspeakable mercy.
1709 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 81. ⁋6 Gorgons, Chimæra's, and Centaurs, with many other Emblematical Figures.
a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. i. 449 Such reverses as are purely emblematical.
1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. iv. 127 Dances and games were instituted, emblematical of the regeneration of the world.
1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 423 St. Vincent Ferraris..is sometimes represented with wings to his shoulders..but..these large emblematical wings, in conjunction with the Dominican habit, have a strange uncouth effect.

Derivatives

embleˈmaticalness n. Obsolete
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1731 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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