Verb

(head)

(symbolise)

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Verb

(en-verb)

To be symbolic of; to represent.

The crossed hammer and sickle symbolise the union of workers and peasantry in their fight for their rights.

* 1852 CE: William and Robert Chambers, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal

[H]is heart swelled within him, as he sat at the head of his own table, on the occasion of the house-warming, dispensing with no niggard hand the gratuitous viands and unlimited beer, which were at once to symbolise and inaugurate the hospitality of his mansion.

Verb

(head)

(symbolize)

Verb

(en-verb)

To be symbolic of; to represent.

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To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.

(obsolete) To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

* Francis Bacon

The pleasing of colour symbolizeth' with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth ' symbolize with harmony.

* Howell

They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.

(obsolete) To hold the same faith; to agree.

* G. S. Faber

The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.