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Desk :: Desk (n.) A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession..

Emblematical :: Emblematical (a.) 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..

Bush :: Bush (n.) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself..

Formula :: Formula (n.) A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound..

Symbolic :: Symbolic (a.) See Symbolics.

Symbolize :: Symbolize (v. t.) To make representative of something; to regard or treat as symbolic.

Totem :: Totem (n.) A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan..

Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o

Symbolics :: Symbolical (a.) Of or pertaining to a symbol or symbols; of the nature of a symbol; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; representative; as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge..

Presentive :: Presentive (a.) Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic.

Allusion :: Allusion (n.) A figurative or symbolical reference.

Allusive :: Allusive (a.) Figurative; symbolical.

Scapegoat :: Scapegoat (n.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness..

Symbolist :: Symbolism (n.) The science of creeds; symbolics.

Air :: Air (n.) Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile..

Homage :: Homage (n.) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign..

Symbolical :: Symbolic (a.) Alt. of Symbolica.

Symbolized :: Symbolization (n.) The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation.

Symbolize :: Symbolize (v. i.) To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.

Cherub :: Cherub (n.) A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple.

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