Symbolized vs Symbolised - What's the difference?
symbolized | symbolised |
(symbolize)
To be symbolic of; to represent.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
(obsolete) To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
* Francis Bacon
* Howell
(obsolete) To hold the same faith; to agree.
* G. S. Faber
(symbolise)
To be symbolic of; to represent.
* 1852 CE: William and Robert Chambers, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal
As verbs the difference between symbolized and symbolised
is that symbolized is (symbolize) while symbolised is (symbolise).symbolized
English
Verb
(head)symbolize
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Alternative forms
* symbolise (UK )Verb
(en-verb)citation, passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
- The pleasing of colour symbolizeth' with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth ' symbolize with harmony.
- They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
- The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.
Derived terms
* nonsymbolizingsymbolised
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Verb
(head)symbolise
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Alternative forms
* symbolize (US )Verb
(en-verb)- The crossed hammer and sickle symbolise the union of workers and peasantry in their fight for their rights.
- [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.