emblematicize

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 [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.

Related terms

• emblematize

Further reading

• [1] in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913