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Example sentences for "symbolised"

Lexicographically close words:
symbolic; symbolical; symbolically; symbolisation; symbolise; symbolises; symbolising; symbolism; symbolisms; symbolist
  1. These ten kingdoms are also symbolised in Daniel’s dream by ten horns that came out of the head of the nondescript animal that stood for Rome.

  2. Some have laboured to prove that the Old and New Testaments were these witnesses, others that they were symbolised by the law and Gospel.

  3. Their advent, and the way they came, is very graphically symbolised in the unicorn on the royal arms of England.

  4. He was symbolised by the ton—the end of weight scale.

  5. If Turkey, as symbolised by the river Euphrates, is drying up, then these kings must be advancing Eastward; and so they are.

  6. In Nebuchadnezzar’s metallic image we saw Rome symbolised by the legs, composed of iron and clay.

  7. The ten toes, however, symbolised ten kings or kingdoms that were to arise in the latter day, or at the time of the end.

  8. From it we learn that the ten toes symbolised ten kingdoms which were to arise out of the Roman Empire.

  9. The appearance to these humble men as they 'sat simply chatting in a rustic row 'symbolised the destination of the Gospel for all ranks and classes.

  10. It symbolised both the nature of that gracious, gentle Spirit, and the perpetuity and completeness of its abode on Jesus.

  11. The ministry of Christ, when He was a servant here upon earth, was symbolised by His washing His disciples' feet, an act which was part of the preparation of the guests for a feast.

  12. It has also been suggested that the creature symbolised sensation generally.

  13. Space is presented to us in our sensuous experience of resistance to organic movements; while it is symbolised in terms of phenomena presented to sight, as already explained in the Essay on Vision.

  14. This thought-form may not inaptly be compared to a Leyden jar, the coating of living essence being symbolised by the jar, and the thought energy by the charge of electricity.

  15. Some say it is composed of four gammas, conjoined in the centre, which as numerals expressed the Holy Trinity, and by its rectangular form symbolised the chief corner-stone of the Church.

  16. This is the triangle--generally the equilateral--which of course symbolised both the trinity in unity and the equality of the three.

  17. Ajarama, the tutelary god of foreigners, symbolised by a whitewashed stump under a shed, apparently a Sivaic or white Lingam, no doubt called foreign because Ashar came from Assyria, and Esir from the still older Ethiopians.

  18. In Early Christian Art the unicorn symbolised the highest and purest virtue; not only was it one of the noblest bearings in the heraldry of the Middle Ages, but was viewed as the immediate emblem of our Blessed Lord.

  19. The unicorn was a famous device all over Europe, and symbolised the virtue of the mind and the strength of the body.

  20. In Persian philosophy the trinity of Goodness was Good Thought, Good Deed, and Good Word, and in Britain these Three Graces were symbolised by the three Golden Berries of the Mistletoe or Golden Bough.

  21. The prehistoric dog or jackal symbolised not tenacity or courage, but the maker of tracks, for the well-authenticated reason that dogs were considered the best guides to practicable courses in the wilderness.

  22. Other authorities believe that the octopus symbolised "the fertilising watery principle," and that the svastika is a conventionalised form of this creature.

  23. At Kildare where the circular pyreum assuredly symbolised the central Fire, the servants of Bride were known indeterminately as either Maolbrighde or Maolmuire, i.

  24. At St. Albans, the sacred processions started from two tumps or toot hills, and it may be suggested these symbolised the two teats of the primeval parent.

  25. Frequently this "ded" emblem took the form of a column or pillar, which symbolised the eternal support and stability of the universe.

  26. Bull-headed men and dog-headed men are represented constantly in Cretan Art, and these in all likelihood symbolised the primeval bull-dogs who trekked into so many of the wild and trackless places of the world.

  27. She symbolised the island and its social life and organisation.

  28. According to tradition, this Sagittarius, which appeared to be shooting its arrow at the bronze stag of the archi-episcopal palace, symbolised the rivalry between the Archbishop and the Chapter of the Cathedral.

  29. On the left, =The Christian Religion=, symbolised by a crowned woman with chalice and standard.

  30. A political symbol whose significance has once been established by association, may go through a psychological development of its own, apart from the history of the facts which were originally symbolised by it.

  31. The words are so rigid, so easily personified, so associated with affection and prejudice; the things symbolised by the words are so unstable.

  32. They do see it, because the intellectual process, the process of comprehending the reasons symbolised by these figures and these signs, confers upon them a sort of pleasure, such as an artist has in visual symmetry.

  33. Do not charge me with anything worse than official egotism, if I say that these differences appear to be largely symbolised by my own existence.

  34. Thus the English Catholic reaction that had been symbolised by the repudiation of Anne of Cleves, and the marriage with Katharine Howard, was triumphantly producing the results which Henry and Gardiner had intended.

  35. This is the real case against that modern society that is symbolised by such art and architecture.

  36. I am far from sneering at this; having a general philosophy which need not here be expounded, but which may be symbolised by saying that monkeys can enjoy nuts but only men can enjoy wine.

  37. Against all this dance of doubt and degree stood something that can best be symbolised by a simple example.

  38. Among the many Byzantine reliefs with which this facade is jewelled the most perfect is that of the Twelve Apostles, symbolised as sheep, with the Lamb enthroned in the centre and palm trees on either side.

  39. The dress, suggesting both knight and peasant, seems to typify the defender and sustainer of maternity symbolised by the young mother sitting, to the R.

  40. There is yet a third psychological process by which the confusion between the symbol and the thing symbolised is possible; it is the ideo-emotional arrest.

  41. What wonder then, with this religious saturation of immortality, that the flower which symbolised the resurrection should be depicted in such profusion in their tombs and elsewhere!

  42. Mars flourishes his broken spear, his wolves and kites cower to him for protection from the emissaries of the new faith, whose triumph is further symbolised in the two figures above of ancient deities conquered by Angels.

  43. It symbolised worship, and that was enough.

  44. Purity, and gladness, and knowledge have been symbolised by it in all tongues.

  45. I am not going to insist upon any theory of an atonement, but I do want to urge this, that Christianity is nothing, if it have not explained and taken up into itself that which was symbolised in that old ritual.

  46. It symbolised also the power of life and death, vested in the savage conqueror over the unfortunate conquered, delivered up wholly to his mercy.

  47. It is the converse of this which is symbolised in the story of the Fall.

  48. The staff of Moses brought forth water, while that of Aaron curled into a serpent when it symbolised eternity.

  49. This is symbolised in the seventeenth Atout, called The Stars, represented by an oblation to Osiris.

  50. It so happens that this strange difference between the new and the old mode of Dickens can be symbolised and stated in one separate and simple contrast.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "symbolised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.