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emblematicize

emblematicize verb: to render (someone or something) emblematic.

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
    • 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.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

Forms of emblematicize

third-person singular presentemblematicizes
present participleemblematicizing
past participleemblematicized
pastemblematicized

Origin of emblematicize

From emblematic + -ize.

Questions about emblematicize

What does emblematicize mean?
Emblematicize means to render (someone or something) emblematic.
What part of speech is emblematicize?
Emblematicize is a verb.
What is the past tense of emblematicize?
The past tense of emblematicize is emblematicized.

Words near emblematicize in the dictionary

  1. emblemata
  2. emblematic
  3. emblematical
  4. emblematically
  5. emblematicalness
  6. emblematicize
  7. emblematicized
  8. emblematicizes
  9. emblematicizing
  10. emblematise
  11. emblematised

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