symboln.¹

Brit.

/ˈsɪmbl/, U.S.

/ˈsɪmb(ə)l/

Forms: Also 1500s simbole, 1500s–1600s symbole, symboll, 1600s simbol; also in Latin form.

Etymology: < late Latin symbolum (partly through French symbole , 16th cent. = Italian simbolo , Spanish simbolo , Portuguese symbolo ), < Greek σύμβολον mark, token, ticket, ‘tessera’, < σύν sym- prefix + root of βολή , βόλος a throw (compare συμβάλλειν to put together, < σύν sym- prefix + βάλλειν to throw).

a. A formal authoritative statement or summary of the religious belief of the Christian church, or of a particular church or sect; a creed or confession of faith, spec. the Apostles' Creed.This use is traceable to Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage (c250), who applies Latin symbolum to the baptismal creed, this creed being the ‘mark’ or ‘sign’ of a Christian as distinguished from a heathen. The notion, long current, that the creed was so called because it was ‘put together’ by the Apostles is without foundation in fact.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > creed > [noun]

credoeOE

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shahāda1885

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1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) iii. 312 Thys crede ys called Simbolum, that ys to say a gatherynge of morselles, for eche of the .xii. apostels put therto a morsel.

1490 Arte & Crafte to knowe well to Dye (Caxton) 4 The credo and symbole of the fayth.1536 King Henry VIII in Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation (1679) I. Collect. Rec. 306 All..things..which be comprehended in the whole body and Canon of the Bible, and..in the three Creeds or Symbols.1539 J. Hilsey Man. Prayers C iij b The Symbole or Crede of the greate doctour Athanasius.1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xiii. 126 b He sayde..the Lordes Prayer, the salutation of the Aungell, and the Symbole of the Apostles.1602 R. Parsons Warn-word i. xiv. f. 100^v The Symbolum or Creed of the Apostles.a1638 in W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. iv. §27. 205 The Symbole is a briefe yet entire Methodicall summe of Christian Doctrine.1699 T. Baker Refl. Learning xiv. 175 Enquiring into the number of Symbols, he adds a fourth to the other three.1887 Church Q. Rev. Apr. 20 The symbolum Quicunque vult, whether regarded as an actual Creed..or as a hymn on the Creed..has an intense value of its own.1887 C. Hazard Mem. J. L. Diman vii. 150 The Nicene Creed, the great symbol in which the divinity of Christ is asserted and defined.1912 Church Q. Rev. July 349 Salnar, in 1581, gathered the ten chief Symbols of the Reformed Churches in his Harmonia Confessionum Fidei.

†b. transferred. A brief or sententious statement; a formula, motto, maxim; occasionally a summary, synopsis. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [noun]

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun]

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1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. H4 The simbole thereto [sc. to the helmet] annexed was this, Ex lachrimis lachrimæ.

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 94 The Cynique in his symbole advising men to adde benignity to their courtship.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia (following Cotgrave) Symbole..a short and intricate riddle or sentence.

1662 J. Owen Disc. Liturgies iii. 16 That they might have [in the Lord's Prayer] a summary Symbole of all the most excellent things they were to ask of God.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 117. ⁋3 The celebrated symbol of Pythagoras, ἀνεμῶν πνεόντων τὴν ἠχὼ προσκύνει; ‘when the wind blows, worship its echo.’

a. Something that stands for, represents, or denotes something else (not by exact resemblance, but by vague suggestion, or by some accidental or conventional relation); esp. a material object representing or taken to represent something immaterial or abstract, as a being, idea, quality, or condition; a representative or typical figure, sign, or token; †occasionally a type (of some quality). Const. of.

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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol

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1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ii. sig. O^v That as a sacred Symbole it [sc. a blood-stain] may dwell In her sonnes flesh.

1612 T. Dekker Troia-Noua Triumphans 181 Euery one carrying..a Symbole, or Badge of that Learning which she professeth.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey ii. 139 They [sc. ostriches] are the simplest of fowles, and symbolls of folly.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 335 To renounce his baptisme, All seales and symbols of redeemed sin.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 170 They play and sport together. A thing so true a symbole of deerenesse.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. 265 Salt as incorruptible, was the Simbole of friendship.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 127/1 In Arms..Oranges [are] the simbol of Dissimulation.

1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 451 Words are the Signs and Symbols of Things; and, as in Accompts, Ciphers and Figures pass for real Summs; so..Words and Names pass for Things themselves.

1765–8 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. iii. iii. §5 Another symbol was anciently used in proof that a sale was perfected, which continues to this day in bargains of lesser importance among the lower rank of people, the parties licking and joining of thumbs.

1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. x. 238 There was engraved on it a cap, the ancient symbol of freedom.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 126 ‘I deliver to you, by this symbol,’—(here she gave into his hand the venerable gold-headed staff of the deceased Earl of Torwood)—‘the keeping and government and seneschalship of my Tower of Tillietudlem.’

1842 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 114 The kiss, The woven arms, seem but to be Weak symbols of the settled bliss, The comfort, I have found in thee.

1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. iv. 95 The fluting of the column, which I doubt not was the Greek symbol of the bark of the tree.

1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. iv. §22. 68 Ultimate religious ideas and ultimate scientific ideas, alike turn out to be merely symbols of the actual, not cognitions of it.

1865 R. W. Dale Jewish Temple xvi. 180 The offering of incense is a natural symbol of adoration.

1909 H. R. Haggard Yellow God 108 The symbols of the good and evil genii on a Mohammedan tomb.

b. An object representing something sacred; spec. (absol.) either of the elements in the eucharist, as representing the body and blood of Christ.

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society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > [noun]

houseleOE

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society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > [noun]

Tetragrammaton1601

hierograph1835

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1671 J. Evelyn Let. 27 Sept. in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 232 After the prayer..the symbols become changed into the body and blood of Christ, after a sacramental, spiritual, and real manner.

1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts ii. ix. 470 Bread and Wine..by Consecration being made Symbols of the Body and Blood of Christ.

1781 J. Morison in Transl. & Paraphr. Sacred Script. (Gen. Assembly Church of Scotl.) xxxv. ii That symbol of his flesh he broke.

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. iii. 364 The injuries began the very day after the conquest, when..the whitewashings and removals of Moslem symbols, commenced.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. 385 Whether the body [of Christ] was really in the symbols.

1870 M. D. Conway Earthward Pilgrimage ix. 119 We read of many..religions,..all of them surrounded with fables and symbols... Of all the symbols, the most universal was the Cross.

1877 E. Peters tr. Pfleiderer Paulinism I. vi. 240 This mystical element [lies] at the very root of the ancient idea of worship; the symbol is here never mere symbol, but..medium of a real connection with the actual..object of worship.

1899 W. R. Inge Christian Mysticism vii. 258 We should..train ourselves..to consider them [sc. the sacraments] as divinely-ordered symbols, by which the Church,..and we as members of it, realise the highest and deepest of our spiritual privileges.

c. Numismatics. A small device on a coin, additional to and usually independent of the main device or ‘type’.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > obverse or reverse of coin > device stamped on

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symbol1883

1883 P. Gardner Types Greek Coins ii. 53 The symbol..is a copy or replica of the signet of the magistrate who is responsible for the coin.

1886 B. V. Head in L. Jewitt's Eng. Coins & Tokens 102 Small objects represented either in the field or the exergue as adjuncts to the main type are called symbols.

d. Symbols collectively; symbolism. rare.

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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > collectively

charactery1593

symbolism1653

notation1819

symbol1856

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 175 Proud..of the language and symbol of chivalry.

1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iv. xxv. 410 Other portions of [the Apocalypse], and those the least loaded with prophetic symbol.

3. A written character or mark used to represent something; a letter, figure, or sign conventionally standing for some object, process, etc.e.g. the figures denoting the planets, signs of the zodiac, etc. in astronomy; the letters and other characters denoting elements, etc. in chemistry, quantities, operations, etc. in mathematics, the faces of a crystal in crystallography.

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society > communication > writing > written character > [noun]

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character1490

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c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) i. i. §2 The symbol..I cal the written letter, quhilk representes to the eie the sound that the mouth sould utter.

1700 Moxon's Math. made Easie (ed. 3) 167 Symboles, are Letters used for Numbers in Algebra.

1816 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 2) 179 The different letters which compose the symbol.

1827 R. Whately Elements Logic (ed. 2) i. §4. 36 The advantage of substituting for the terms, in a regular syllogism, arbitrary unmeaning symbols, such as letters of the alphabet, is much the same as in mathematics.

1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 180 Table of symbols of the elementary bodies.

1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §713 It is usual in descriptive works to give a list of the authors, and the symbols for their names.

1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 186 Suppose x = f(a, b, t), y = g(a, b, t), where f and g are symbols of functionality.

Compounds

C1. General attributive .

symbol-essence n.

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1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 138 If he explores all forms and substances..to their symbol-essences.

symbol-figure n.

ΚΠ

1895 F. T. Elworthy Evil Eye 249 The typical symbol-figures representing the four Evangelists.

symbol-flower n.

ΚΠ

1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 53 Not gold, not blood, their altar dowers But votive tears and symbol flowers.

symbol-god n.

ΚΠ

1866 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lost Tales Miletus, Secret Way 4 Egypt's vast symbol gods.

symbol-maker n.

ΚΠ

1981 F. Inglis Promise of Happiness iii. 85 The nineteenth-century novelists were the symbol-makers for a new order.

symbol-making n.

ΚΠ

1962 W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use viii. 180 A kind of linguistic ambiguity..seems frequently to occur in poems bent on symbol-making.

symbol-object n.

ΚΠ

1913 L. Bloomfield in C. F. Hockett Leonard Bloomfield Anthol. (1970) 43 This symbol-object is..the word: without it no concept of action, quality, or relation can exist.

1964 E. Becker in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 119 Man..possesses both thing-objects, like all other animals; and, uniquely, symbol-objects.

symbol-printing n.

ΚΠ

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Symbol-printing (Telegraphy), a system of printing in dots and marks.., or other cipher, as distinct from printing in the usual Roman letter.

symbol-system n.

ΚΠ

1946 F. P. Chisholm in W. S. Knickerbocker 20th Cent. Eng. ii. 183 The communication process involves both speakers and listeners, writers and readers, using a socially~constructed symbol-system, in whose structure ‘reality’ must be represented.

1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 13 Among symbol systems language occupies a special place.

symbol-user n.

ΚΠ

1946 F. P. Chisholm in W. S. Knickerbocker 20th Cent. Eng. ii. 172 Our distinguishing human characteristic is that we are symbol-users.

C2.

symbol-making adj.

ΚΠ

1953 R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 28 Its one round turret, its weather-cock and flag-pole all supernaturally designed in the last sun's last symbol-making glow.

symbol-minded adj.

ΚΠ

1936 O. Nash Primrose Path 55 Still, I think, a pig's a pig—Ah, there, symbol-minded Sig!

1977 N.Y. Times 20 Jan. 4/3 Ever since he walked home from his inauguration, Mr. Carter has presented the country with a symbol-minded Presidency.

symbol-using adj.

ΚΠ

1951 J. Holloway Lang. & Intell. vi. 95 Intelligence displayed in a symbol-using planning sequence sometimes enables us to reduce the sequence of actions to a sequence of routines.

1977 R. Holland Self & Social Context i. 18 Ethnomethodology..embraces a phenomenological concern for the experiencing, symbol-using self.

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单词	symbol
释义	symboln.¹ Brit. /ˈsɪmbl/, U.S. /ˈsɪmb(ə)l/ Forms: Also 1500s simbole, 1500s–1600s symbole, symboll, 1600s simbol; also in Latin form. Etymology: < late Latin symbolum (partly through French symbole , 16th cent. = Italian simbolo , Spanish simbolo , Portuguese symbolo ), < Greek σύμβολον mark, token, ticket, ‘tessera’, < σύν sym- prefix + root of βολή , βόλος a throw (compare συμβάλλειν to put together, < σύν sym- prefix + βάλλειν to throw). 1. a. A formal authoritative statement or summary of the religious belief of the Christian church, or of a particular church or sect; a creed or confession of faith, spec. the Apostles' Creed.This use is traceable to Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage (c250), who applies Latin symbolum to the baptismal creed, this creed being the ‘mark’ or ‘sign’ of a Christian as distinguished from a heathen. The notion, long current, that the creed was so called because it was ‘put together’ by the Apostles is without foundation in fact. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > creed > [noun] credoeOE trothc1175 creance1393 trutha1400 symbol1490 confession1536 judgement1609 persuasion1623 creed1676 Shemaa1699 shahāda1885 creditability1886 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) iii. 312 Thys crede ys called Simbolum, that ys to say a gatherynge of morselles, for eche of the .xii. apostels put therto a morsel. 1490 Arte & Crafte to knowe well to Dye (Caxton) 4 The credo and symbole of the fayth.1536 King Henry VIII in Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation (1679) I. Collect. Rec. 306 All..things..which be comprehended in the whole body and Canon of the Bible, and..in the three Creeds or Symbols.1539 J. Hilsey Man. Prayers C iij b The Symbole or Crede of the greate doctour Athanasius.1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xiii. 126 b He sayde..the Lordes Prayer, the salutation of the Aungell, and the Symbole of the Apostles.1602 R. Parsons Warn-word i. xiv. f. 100^v The Symbolum or Creed of the Apostles.a1638 in W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. iv. §27. 205 The Symbole is a briefe yet entire Methodicall summe of Christian Doctrine.1699 T. Baker Refl. Learning xiv. 175 Enquiring into the number of Symbols, he adds a fourth to the other three.1887 Church Q. Rev. Apr. 20 The symbolum Quicunque vult, whether regarded as an actual Creed..or as a hymn on the Creed..has an intense value of its own.1887 C. Hazard Mem. J. L. Diman vii. 150 The Nicene Creed, the great symbol in which the divinity of Christ is asserted and defined.1912 Church Q. Rev. July 349 Salnar, in 1581, gathered the ten chief Symbols of the Reformed Churches in his Harmonia Confessionum Fidei. †b. transferred. A brief or sententious statement; a formula, motto, maxim; occasionally a summary, synopsis. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [noun] saw9.. quideOE yedOE wordOE wisdomc1175 bysawe?c1225 riotc1330 sentencec1380 textc1386 dict1432 diction1477 redec1480 say1486 adage1530 commonplace?1531 adagy1534 soothsay1549 maxima1564 apophthegm1570 speech1575 gnome1577 aphorisma1593 imprese1593 spoke1594 symbol1594 maxim1605 wording1606 impress1610 motto1615 dictum1616 impresa1622 dictate1625 effate1650 sentiment1780 great thought1821 brocarda1856 text-motto1880 sententia1917 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] abbreviationa1464 summary1509 breve1523 bridgement1523 abbreviate1531 summulary1533 breviary1547 extract1549 digest1555 brief1563 promptuary1577 abbreviature1578 institute1578 breviation1580 breviate1581 compendiary1589 symbol1594 ramass1596 compendium1608 abridgement1609 digestment1610 digestion1613 epitome1623 abridge1634 comprisal1640 comprisurea1641 syntome1641 medulla1644 multum in parvo1653 contracta1657 landscape1656 comprehension1659 sylloge1686 contraction1697 résumé1782 compend1796 sum-up1848 roundup1884 wrap-up1960 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. H4 The simbole thereto [sc. to the helmet] annexed was this, Ex lachrimis lachrimæ. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 94 The Cynique in his symbole advising men to adde benignity to their courtship. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia (following Cotgrave) Symbole..a short and intricate riddle or sentence. 1662 J. Owen Disc. Liturgies iii. 16 That they might have [in the Lord's Prayer] a summary Symbole of all the most excellent things they were to ask of God. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 117. ⁋3 The celebrated symbol of Pythagoras, ἀνεμῶν πνεόντων τὴν ἠχὼ προσκύνει; ‘when the wind blows, worship its echo.’ 2. a. Something that stands for, represents, or denotes something else (not by exact resemblance, but by vague suggestion, or by some accidental or conventional relation); esp. a material object representing or taken to represent something immaterial or abstract, as a being, idea, quality, or condition; a representative or typical figure, sign, or token; †occasionally a type (of some quality). Const. of. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol tokeningc888 tokenc890 print1340 bannerc1380 signingc1390 signala1393 signc1400 similitude?c1400 type?a1500 sacrament1534 resemblance1548 adumbration1552 character1569 picture1580 symbol1590 moral?1594 attribute1600 symbolization1603 allegory1606 emblema1616 hieroglyph1646 simile1682 documentor1684 symptoma1687 monument1728 metaphor1836 presentation1866 symbolisms1876 ideogram1897 picture message1912 figura1959 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ii. sig. O^v That as a sacred Symbole it [sc. a blood-stain] may dwell In her sonnes flesh. 1612 T. Dekker Troia-Noua Triumphans 181 Euery one carrying..a Symbole, or Badge of that Learning which she professeth. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey ii. 139 They [sc. ostriches] are the simplest of fowles, and symbolls of folly. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 335 To renounce his baptisme, All seales and symbols of redeemed sin. View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 170 They play and sport together. A thing so true a symbole of deerenesse. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. 265 Salt as incorruptible, was the Simbole of friendship. View more context for this quotation 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 127/1 In Arms..Oranges [are] the simbol of Dissimulation. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 451 Words are the Signs and Symbols of Things; and, as in Accompts, Ciphers and Figures pass for real Summs; so..Words and Names pass for Things themselves. 1765–8 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. iii. iii. §5 Another symbol was anciently used in proof that a sale was perfected, which continues to this day in bargains of lesser importance among the lower rank of people, the parties licking and joining of thumbs. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. x. 238 There was engraved on it a cap, the ancient symbol of freedom. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 126 ‘I deliver to you, by this symbol,’—(here she gave into his hand the venerable gold-headed staff of the deceased Earl of Torwood)—‘the keeping and government and seneschalship of my Tower of Tillietudlem.’ 1842 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 114 The kiss, The woven arms, seem but to be Weak symbols of the settled bliss, The comfort, I have found in thee. 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. iv. 95 The fluting of the column, which I doubt not was the Greek symbol of the bark of the tree. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. iv. §22. 68 Ultimate religious ideas and ultimate scientific ideas, alike turn out to be merely symbols of the actual, not cognitions of it. 1865 R. W. Dale Jewish Temple xvi. 180 The offering of incense is a natural symbol of adoration. 1909 H. R. Haggard Yellow God 108 The symbols of the good and evil genii on a Mohammedan tomb. b. An object representing something sacred; spec. (absol.) either of the elements in the eucharist, as representing the body and blood of Christ. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > [noun] houseleOE bread and winea1225 sacrament?c1225 sacringc1290 spicec1425 kind?1531 Eucharistc1540 element1556 species1579 elemental1656 mystery1662 symbol1671 waybread1993 society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > [noun] Tetragrammaton1601 hierograph1835 symbol1845 1671 J. Evelyn Let. 27 Sept. in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 232 After the prayer..the symbols become changed into the body and blood of Christ, after a sacramental, spiritual, and real manner. 1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts ii. ix. 470 Bread and Wine..by Consecration being made Symbols of the Body and Blood of Christ. 1781 J. Morison in Transl. & Paraphr. Sacred Script. (Gen. Assembly Church of Scotl.) xxxv. ii That symbol of his flesh he broke. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. iii. 364 The injuries began the very day after the conquest, when..the whitewashings and removals of Moslem symbols, commenced. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. 385 Whether the body [of Christ] was really in the symbols. 1870 M. D. Conway Earthward Pilgrimage ix. 119 We read of many..religions,..all of them surrounded with fables and symbols... Of all the symbols, the most universal was the Cross. 1877 E. Peters tr. Pfleiderer Paulinism I. vi. 240 This mystical element [lies] at the very root of the ancient idea of worship; the symbol is here never mere symbol, but..medium of a real connection with the actual..object of worship. 1899 W. R. Inge Christian Mysticism vii. 258 We should..train ourselves..to consider them [sc. the sacraments] as divinely-ordered symbols, by which the Church,..and we as members of it, realise the highest and deepest of our spiritual privileges. c. Numismatics. A small device on a coin, additional to and usually independent of the main device or ‘type’. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > obverse or reverse of coin > device stamped on coin1362 stamp1555 stander1579 type1785 symbol1883 1883 P. Gardner Types Greek Coins ii. 53 The symbol..is a copy or replica of the signet of the magistrate who is responsible for the coin. 1886 B. V. Head in L. Jewitt's Eng. Coins & Tokens 102 Small objects represented either in the field or the exergue as adjuncts to the main type are called symbols. d. Symbols collectively; symbolism. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > collectively charactery1593 symbolism1653 notation1819 symbol1856 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 175 Proud..of the language and symbol of chivalry. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iv. xxv. 410 Other portions of [the Apocalypse], and those the least loaded with prophetic symbol. 3. A written character or mark used to represent something; a letter, figure, or sign conventionally standing for some object, process, etc.e.g. the figures denoting the planets, signs of the zodiac, etc. in astronomy; the letters and other characters denoting elements, etc. in chemistry, quantities, operations, etc. in mathematics, the faces of a crystal in crystallography. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] printa1382 charactc1384 character1490 figure1597 symbolc1620 graph1933 c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) i. i. §2 The symbol..I cal the written letter, quhilk representes to the eie the sound that the mouth sould utter. 1700 Moxon's Math. made Easie (ed. 3) 167 Symboles, are Letters used for Numbers in Algebra. 1816 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 2) 179 The different letters which compose the symbol. 1827 R. Whately Elements Logic (ed. 2) i. §4. 36 The advantage of substituting for the terms, in a regular syllogism, arbitrary unmeaning symbols, such as letters of the alphabet, is much the same as in mathematics. 1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 180 Table of symbols of the elementary bodies. 1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §713 It is usual in descriptive works to give a list of the authors, and the symbols for their names. 1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 186 Suppose x = f(a, b, t), y = g(a, b, t), where f and g are symbols of functionality. Compounds C1. General attributive . symbol-essence n. ΚΠ 1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 138 If he explores all forms and substances..to their symbol-essences. symbol-figure n. ΚΠ 1895 F. T. Elworthy Evil Eye 249 The typical symbol-figures representing the four Evangelists. symbol-flower n. ΚΠ 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 53 Not gold, not blood, their altar dowers But votive tears and symbol flowers. symbol-god n. ΚΠ 1866 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lost Tales Miletus, Secret Way 4 Egypt's vast symbol gods. symbol-maker n. ΚΠ 1981 F. Inglis Promise of Happiness iii. 85 The nineteenth-century novelists were the symbol-makers for a new order. symbol-making n. ΚΠ 1962 W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use viii. 180 A kind of linguistic ambiguity..seems frequently to occur in poems bent on symbol-making. symbol-object n. ΚΠ 1913 L. Bloomfield in C. F. Hockett Leonard Bloomfield Anthol. (1970) 43 This symbol-object is..the word: without it no concept of action, quality, or relation can exist. 1964 E. Becker in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 119 Man..possesses both thing-objects, like all other animals; and, uniquely, symbol-objects. symbol-printing n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Symbol-printing (Telegraphy), a system of printing in dots and marks.., or other cipher, as distinct from printing in the usual Roman letter. symbol-system n. ΚΠ 1946 F. P. Chisholm in W. S. Knickerbocker 20th Cent. Eng. ii. 183 The communication process involves both speakers and listeners, writers and readers, using a socially~constructed symbol-system, in whose structure ‘reality’ must be represented. 1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 13 Among symbol systems language occupies a special place. symbol-user n. ΚΠ 1946 F. P. Chisholm in W. S. Knickerbocker 20th Cent. Eng. ii. 172 Our distinguishing human characteristic is that we are symbol-users. C2. symbol-making adj. ΚΠ 1953 R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 28 Its one round turret, its weather-cock and flag-pole all supernaturally designed in the last sun's last symbol-making glow. symbol-minded adj. ΚΠ 1936 O. Nash Primrose Path 55 Still, I think, a pig's a pig—Ah, there, symbol-minded Sig! 1977 N.Y. Times 20 Jan. 4/3 Ever since he walked home from his inauguration, Mr. Carter has presented the country with a symbol-minded Presidency. symbol-using adj. ΚΠ 1951 J. Holloway Lang. & Intell. vi. 95 Intelligence displayed in a symbol-using planning sequence sometimes enables us to reduce the sequence of actions to a sequence of routines. 1977 R. Holland Self & Social Context i. 18 Ethnomethodology..embraces a phenomenological concern for the experiencing, symbol-using self. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † symboln.² Forms: (Also in Latin form.) Etymology: < Latin symbola, < Greek συμβολή , < συμβάλλειν (see symbol n.¹). Compare obsolete French symbole ‘a shot, a collation’ (Cotgrave). Obsolete. A contribution (properly to a feast or picnic); a share, portion. Quot. 1627 echoes the Latin phr. symbolarum collatores (Plautus), those who contribute their shot to a feast. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > a contribution quote1451 contribution1609 quotation1613 quota1618 symbol1627 the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] dealc825 lotOE dolea1225 partc1300 portion?1316 sort1382 parcelc1400 skiftc1400 pane1440 partagec1450 shift1461 skair1511 allotment1528 snapshare1538 share1539 slice1548 fee1573 snap1575 moiety1597 snatch1601 allotterya1616 proportiona1616 symbol1627 dealth1637 quantum1649 cavelc1650 snip1655 sortition1671 snack1683 quota1688 contingency1723 snick1723 contingent1728 whack1785 divvy1872 end1903 bite1925 1627 B. Jonson in M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt sig. a1 This reck'ning I will pay, Without conferring symboles. 1653 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year: Winter i. 3 The persons who are to be judged..shall all appear to receive ther Symbol. 1653 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year: Winter xx. 271 He refused to pay his Symbol, which himself and all the company had agreed should be given. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Chester 191 Let me contribute my Symbole on this Subject. 1667 H. Oldenburg in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 414 That they would be pleased..to joyn their Symbola's, and to send in their Proposals. 1683 A. Hill Life Barrow in I. Barrow Wks. I. sig. c2 I wish they [sc. his friends] would..bring in their Symbols toward the History of his Life. 1767 A. Campbell Lexiphanes 56 Misocapelus, instigated by the ramifications of private friendship, disbursed the symbol. 1822 C. Lamb Compl. Decay of Beggars in Elia 1st Ser. To have sat down at the cripples' feast, and to have thrown in his benediction, ay, and his mite too, for a companionable symbol. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2021). symbolv. Brit. /ˈsɪmbl/, U.S. /ˈsɪmb(ə)l/ Etymology: < symbol n.¹ 1. transitive. = symbolize v.¹ 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > be symbol of [verb (transitive)] token971 to stand for ——a1387 presentc1390 discern?a1439 liken?c1450 adumbrate1537 figurate?1548 character1555 shadow1574 shade1591 characterize1594 symbolize1603 hieroglyphic1615 personatea1616 modelizea1628 similize1646 symptom1648 express1649 signaturize1669 image1778 embryo1831 symbol1832 1832 Examiner 595/1 English Justice, being, as she is symboled, hoodwinked. 1861 G. Meredith Evan Harrington I. xi. 209 Bread and cheese symbolled his condition. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 78 [He] read; and tore, As if the living passion symbol'd there Were living nerves to feel the rent. 1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. xi. 213 Angels..with fluttering skirts..and mouths that symbol singing. 2. intransitive. To make signs, to signal.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. i. 248 They say and symbol to me, ‘Tell us of him!’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1490n.²1627v.1832
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