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UK
/sɪmbˈɒlɪkəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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serving as a visible symbol for something abstract
the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish
a crown is emblematic of royalty -
relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols
symbolic operations
symbolic thinking
symbolic logic
How To Use symbolical In A Sentence
- But this is not the only similarity between the individuation process symbolically pictured both in Dylan's opus and in the Bible, where the same deepest mythologem structured the whole book, especially the Book of Isaiah - culminating in the Servant Songs formed in 6th century B.C. - and was further extended in the Book of Revelation in the end of 1st century A.D. Expecting Rain
- Conversely the lighting of a candle may be symbolically significant if it denotes bringing of light, that is, relief from suffering or enlightenment.
- While his death is statistically insignificant, symbolically it is crucial. Times, Sunday Times
- A man and a woman in red ponchos bullwhipped the politician's effigy, then symbolically buried it. - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
- Symbolically, the sales and marketing departments are located in Ludwigsburg on the opposite side of Stuttgart from the production organization. Lean Thinking
- But the secret and symbolical hint was the harmonical nature of the soul; which, delivered from the body, went again to enjoy the primitive harmony of heaven, from whence it first descended; which, according to its progress traced by antiquity, came down by Cancer, and ascended by Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
- But the clashes between mutants of varying capabilities make for excellent fight scenes, the climactic one occurring, both photogenically and symbolically, atop the Statue of Liberty.
- In mathematics, Newton was the first to develop a full range of algorithms for symbolically determining what we now call integrals and derivatives, but he subsequently became fundamentally opposed to the idea, championed by Leibniz, of transforming mathematics into a discipline grounded in symbol manipulation. Isaac Newton
- By moving their capital to Delhi, then, the British symbolically sought to resolve centuries of dynastic struggle for control of the subcontinent.
- Accompanying these threats, the actions indicated were symbolically performed by the exorciser on effigies of the witches made, in this case, of bitumen covered with pitch. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
