Adjective

(en adjective)

Pertaining to a symbol.

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, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}

Referring to something with an implicit meaning.

Adjective

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Of or relating to semiotics or to semantics.

(medicine, dated) Of or relating to the signs or symptoms of diseases.

(Webster 1913)