The imperial ensign, . . . streaming to the wind,
With gems and golden luster rich emblazed.
Milton.
Em*bla"zon (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emblazoned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Emblazoning.] [Pref. em- + blazon. Cf. Emblaze.] 1. To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.
2. To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.
The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair.
Prescott.
Em*bla"zon*er (?), n. One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.
Em*bla"zon*ing, n. The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.
Em*bla"zon*ment (?), n. An emblazoning.
Em*bla"zon*ry (?), n.; pl. Emblazonries (&?;). The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment.
Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry.
Trench.
Em"blem (?), n. [F. emblème, L. emblema, -atis, that which is put in or on, inlaid work, fr. Gr. &?; a thing put in or on, fr. &?; to throw, lay, put in; &?; in + &?; to throw. See In, and Parable.] 1. Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface. [Obs.] Milton.
2. A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity. "His cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek." Shak.
3. A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
Writers and artists of the 17th century gave much attention and study to the composition of such emblems, and many collections of them were published.
Syn. -- Sign; symbol; type; device; signal; token. -- Sign, Emblem, Symbol, Type. Sign is the generic word comprehending all significant representations. An emblem is a visible object representing another by a natural suggestion of characteristic qualities, or an habitual and recognized association; as, a circle, having no apparent beginning or end, is an emblem of eternity; a particular flag is the emblem of the country or ship which has adopted it for a sign and with which it is habitually associated. Between emblem and symbol the distinction is slight, and often one may be substituted for the other without impropriety. See Symbol. Thus, a circle is either an emblem or a symbol of eternity; a scepter, either an emblem or a symbol of authority; a lamb, either an emblem or a symbol of meekness. "An emblem is always of something simple; a symbol may be of something complex, as of a transaction . . . In consequence we do not speak of actions emblematic." C. J. Smith. A type is a representative example, or model, exhibiting the qualities common to all individuals of the class to which it belongs; as, the Monitor is a type of a class of war vessels.
Em"blem (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emblemed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Embleming.] To represent by an emblem; to symbolize. [R.]
Emblemed by the cozening fig tree.
Feltham.
{ Em`blem*at"ic (?), Em`blem*at"ic*al (?), } a. [Cf. F. emblématique.] Pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity. -- Em`blem*at"ic*al*ly, adv.
Em`blem*at"ic*cize (?), v. t. To render emblematic; as, to emblematicize a picture. [R.] Walpole.
Em*blem"a*tist (?), n. A writer or inventor of emblems. Sir T. Browne.
Em*blem"a*tize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emblematized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Emblematizing (?).] To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize.
Anciently the sun was commonly emblematized by a starry or radiate figure.
Bp. Hurd.
Em"ble*ment (?), n. [OF. embleer to sow with corn, F. emblaver, fr. LL. imbladare; pref. in- + LL. bladum grain, F. blé.] (Law) The growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement. Wharton's Law Dict.
Em"blem*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emblemized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Emblemizing (?).] To represent by an emblem; to emblematize. [R.]
Em*bloom" (?), v. t. To emblossom. Savage.
Em*blos"som (?), v. t. To cover or adorn with blossoms.
On the white emblossomed spray.
J. Cunningham.
Em*bod"i*er (?), n. One who embodies.
Em*bod"i*ment (?), n. 1. The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.
2. That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety.
Em*bod"y (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embodied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Embodying.] To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.]
Devils embodied and disembodied.
Sir W. Scott.
The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin.
South.
Em*bod"y, v. i. To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce. [Written also imbody.]
Firmly to embody against this court party.
Burke.
Em*bogue" (?), v. i. [See Disembogue.] To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river. [R.]
Em*bo"guing (?), n. The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged. [R.]
Em*boil" (?), v. i. To boil with anger; to effervesce. [Obs.] Spenser.
Em*boil", v. t. To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe. [Obs.] Spenser.
||Em`boîte"ment` (?), n. [F., fr. emboîter to fit in, insert; en in + boîte box.] (Biol.) The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preëxisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another. Buffon.
Em*bold"en (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emboldened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Emboldening (?).] To give boldness or courage to; to encourage. Shak.
The self-conceit which emboldened him to undertake this dangerous office.
Sir W. Scott.
Em*bold"en*er (?), n. One who emboldens.
Em*bol"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; to throw in. See Embolism.] 1. Embolismic.
2. (Med.) Pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess.
3. (Biol.) Pushing or growing in; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.
Em"bo*lism (?), n. [L. embolismus, from Gr. &?; to throw or put in, insert; cf. &?; intercalated: cf. F. embolisme. See Emblem.] 1. Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.