emblematicize
English
editEtymology
editFrom emblematic + -ize.
Verb
editemblematicize (third-person singular simple present emblematicizes, present participle emblematicizing, simple past and past participle emblematicized)
- (transitive) To render (someone or something) emblematic.
- to emblematicize a picture
- 1771, Horace Walpole, “Painters in the Reign of King George II”, in Anecdotes of Painting in England; […], volume IV, Strawberry-Hill [London]: […] Thomas Kirkgate, →OCLC, page 60:
- He [Jacopo Amigoni] drevv the queen [Caroline of Ansbach, consort of George II] and the three eldeſt princeſſes, and prints were taken from his pictures, vvhich he generally endeavoured to emblematicize by genii and Cupids.
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editFurther reading
edit- “emblematiccize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.