One of the most interesting chapters in the antiquities of ancient nations and of modern savage tribes is the story of liturgical rites, sacred dances, symbolic processions, and the like.
With votive offering collections are, of course, to be associated the medicine bag, amulets, magical charm collections, and that whole class of primitive records or symbolic objects which center in the religious head of the tribe.
The shaft of the column is dotted over with flames, said to be symbolic of the pillar of fire which marched before the Hebrews; may they not rather mean the flames of purgatory?
These stand on each side of the sanctuary, symbolic of Heaven: "Beati misericordis, Beati qui persecutionem patientur propter justitiam.
But the strange part is the supply of water which comes from our Lord's wounds, and fills the pool--symbolic of His being the living water, the well from which whosoever drinketh obtaineth everlasting life.
Nor is it fantastic to speak so of the new and abnormal armaments; for the soul of Germany was really expressed in colossal wheels and cylinders; and her guns were more symbolic than her flags.
But the symbolic intensity of the incident was this.
When secretary for our hospital rowing club on the Thames, a fine cup was given for competition by Sir Frederick Treves on termssymbolic of his attitude to life.
We sat down for a regular pow-wow beside the fire sputtering in the open room, from which thick smoke crept up the face of the rock, and hung over us in a material but symbolic cloud.
It was headed by a symbolic float of waxwork figures, in which a colossal horse, prancing on its hind legs, seemed just about to soar into the air.
It is something deeper far than this; for the very crucial motive of the story, the successful substitution of the commoner for the king, transforms it into a symbolic legend of democracy and the equality of man.
Even in these dances it is interesting to note that the same symbolic significance appears to be present, for the earliest form of these dances was the "round song," or roundelay, and it was danced in a circle.
This certainly shows the difference between the language of music and what is called articulate speech, the purely symbolic and artificial character of the latter, and the direct, unhampered utterance of the former.
The habit of presenting prophetic truth in the highly figurative, symbolic form, of the apocalypse also became prominent in later Judaism.
It is evident that in the first case symbolic means artistic, and realistic inartistic, while in the second, realistic is synonymous with artistic and symbolic with inartistic.
But similar attempts at classification in the other forms of art are not wanting: suffice it to mention the realistic and symbolic forms, spoken of in painting and sculpture.
At each of its four corners crouches a sphinx, with a dog's head, symbolic of ceaseless vigilance.
A dense thicket of frangipanni scents the air with the symbolic blossoms, shining like stars from grey-green boughs of sharp-cut leaves.
The symbolic representation of such an electromagnetic drop is shown in Fig.
Symbolic representations of plugs and jacks are shown in Fig.
Such is the story of the Switez maid, as told by Mickiewicz in inimitable Polish verse, and translated into the symbolic language of music by the Polish tone-poet, Chopin, in the A flat ballade.
We miss the warm color and tremulous, sustained effects of the violins, which with us are always symbolic of love.
This symbolic use of Solveig's song, with its suggestive significance, is in my opinion the happiest and most poetic touch in the whole composition.
Who can wonder that the Chaldean, and the Celt, alike ascended to the high places, and paid their worship of symbolic fires to the great fountain of life and light, the central force of the universe?
It gave the symbolic meanings of the different animals.
The soil for the cultivation of poetry about animals was prepared by the symbolic and allegorical way of looking at Nature which held sway all through the Middle Ages.
The lines are full of that pantheism which not only brings subject and object, Mind and Nature, into symbolic relationship, but works them into one tissue.
Miss Fletcher gave, in 1884, a list ofsymbolic colors, which differs somewhat from that which the author has suggested in the preceding section.
Black is assumed to be the symbolic color for the Takuśkanśkan, the Wind-makers, whose servants are the four winds and the four black spirits of night.
I will not go further into this interesting subject nor revert to the revolution of these symbolic colors as throwing light on tribal migrations and history.
I have found a subtle connection between the elements of earth and air that answers somewhat to the blending of the symboliccolors just spoken of.
Red among the Omaha is the color symbol of the East, but red is also symbolic of war.
The author has never observed this use of white as a symbolic color.
If the Indian’s world were arched with his symbolic colors, we should see a brilliant band of red start from the east and fade to yellow in the west; while the green-blue line from the north would deepen to the black of the south.
On the graves crocuses were thrusting out their little sheathed heads, symbolic proof of the sweetness that comes forth from sorrow.
The dark waves of the Atlantic had often seemed to him symbolic of the Irish nature; dark and sad to the outward view, but when the wind ruffles the surface showing light and beauty beneath, secret inner palaces of green crystal.
We do not understand that this will be a physical whirlwind, but this symbolic expression is used to convey the thought of a severe strife of the powers of the air.
As a symbolic picture, it speaks to us of the Word of the Lord, the Sword of the Spirit, 'sharper than any two-edged sword.
John the Revelator, seeing in vision the same symbolic beast (government), was also at a loss for a name by which to describe it, and finally gives it several.
Thirteen symbolic months, the 390 years of Protestantism's siege of the Papacy.
As the blue sapphire (symbolic of faithfulness), so is the rulership of the Almighty.
This verse associates this City with the other figure of a symbolic Temple, which the Lord is now preparing, of which the saints will constitute the 'pillars.
In symbolic language an earthquake signifies social revolution, and the Scriptural declaration is that none like it ever before occurred.
There is water in it, symbolic of what Truth there is in ecclesiasticism.
These voices have been uttered, and to some extent heard, in thesymbolic heavens, the nominal church.
The hand is symbolic of power and of execution of purpose.
An interchangeable decimal system of dry and liquid measures is given, symbolic of just and righteous dealing.
But the utility of symbolic logic should not be estimated by the brevity with which propositions may sometimes be expressed by its means.
In the first and last of the four movements there is a long sustained high E, symbolic of the buzzing sound which the composer constantly heard as his congenital deafness increased.
Lothian felt an immense pity for her, symbolic as she was of all the others, and the few remarks he made were uttered with an instinctive deference and courtesy.
Britannia upon our coins and in our symbolic pictures, or the Latin Dame of Liberty with the Phrygian cap, is not so much England or France as this woman is America, the soul of the West in all its power and beauty.
After picture and symbolic writings would follow phonetic characters, or marks for sounds; that is, the alphabet.
Indeed, the Chinese have never advanced beyond symbolic characters, of which it is said they have more than one hundred thousand combinations or varieties.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "symbolic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
