emblematicize

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English

Etymology

From emblematic +‎ -ize.

Verb

emblematicize (third-person singular simple present emblematicizes, present participle emblematicizing, simple past and past participle emblematicized)

  1. (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 : 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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