Symbolizing

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Symbolize \Sym"bol*ize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Symbolized}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Symbolizing}.] [Cf. F. symboliser.]
     1. To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to
        correspond; to harmonize.
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              The pleasing of color symbolizeth with the pleasing
              of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of
              order doth symbolize with harmony.    --Bacon.
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              They both symbolize in this, that they love to look
              upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
                                                    --Howell.
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     2. To hold the same faith; to agree. [R.]
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              The believers in pretended miracles have always
              previously symbolized with the performers of them.
                                                    --G. S. Faber.
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     3. To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  symbolizing
       n : the act of representing something with a symbol [syn: {symbolising}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "symbolizing":
     apish, delineatory, depictive, echoic, embodying, figurative,
     graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative,
     incarnating, limning, mimetic, mimish, onomatopoeic, personifying,
     pictographic, pictorial, portraying, representational,
     representative, representing, simulative, typifying, vivid