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Example sentences for "symbolising"

Lexicographically close words:
symbolically; symbolisation; symbolise; symbolised; symbolises; symbolism; symbolisms; symbolist; symbolistic; symbolists
  1. Perpendicular; as symbolising the progress of Erastianism.

  2. But in either case there was a symbolising intention on the part of the founders of churches.

  3. Here we have a triplet: and at some height above it, a wheel-window of seven circles: symbolising therefore eternity and perfection.

  4. In truth they are unknowingly, unwillingly, symbolising the Cross.

  5. Decorated; as symbolising the connection of doctrines.

  6. Symbolising spirit of Catholic Antiquity, in (a) Interpretation of Holy Scriptures.

  7. These are not historical Upsala kings, but personified myths, symbolising the development of human society on a religious basis into a political condition of law culminating in royal power.

  8. The central conception, too, is the same--the Trinity of Grail-keepers symbolising the Divine Trinity.

  9. In fact," she added, "I understand that he thinks all special acts of piety beneficial, as symbolising the inward act by which the soul incessantly strives to reunite itself to the One.

  10. The probability is that here it merely represents the evil one, symbolising the Fall in the Adam and Eve relief, and now implying that Mary healed the wound that Eve had dealt the human race--la piaga che Maria richiuse ed unse.

  11. But we still require a means of symbolising the general proposition that every relational property is internal to any term which possesses it--the proposition, namely, which was referred to on p.

  12. Around this great Poplar, symbolising the greatest solar ascension and the decline which follows it, the crowd dance and sing an appropriate refrain.

  13. The tree was sacred to the Sabine Mars Quirinus; and two Myrtles stood before his temple, as two Laurels stood before the temple of the Roman Mars, symbolising the union of the Roman and Sabine peoples.

  14. Cruciform flowers are, at the present day, all regarded as of good omen, having been marked with the Sign of the Cross, and thus symbolising Redemption.

  15. In later days, the Shamrock or Trefoil, and the Pansy, or Herb Trinity, were regarded as symbolising the Trinity.

  16. Above all the lamps offered a convenient opportunity for symbolising Christ as a light, and thus making use of the image of the lamb.

  17. Another stone, described by Professor Nilsson, is an obelisk symbolising Baal.

  18. It is, indeed, employed by all Christian sects, in the rite of baptism, as symbolising purity.

  19. To the top of a spear was tied a tail feather of the rhinoceros hornbill, symbolising rapid movement, and also a woman's skirt of fibre with a bunch of odoriferous leaves attached.

  20. Two diminutive and unfinished mats were lying on the cover, symbolising clothing for the deceased, and tufts of long, beautiful grass had been tied to the top at either end.

  21. So, in precisely the same way here, the prophet takes the outward facts of the Temple as symbolising great and blessed spiritual thoughts of the God that filled the Temple with His own lustre.

  22. The Goddess Nehallenia is usually sculptured with a hound by her side, and in her lap is a basket of fruits "symbolising the fecundating power of the earth".

  23. Hale also means healthy, and the circular halo symbolising the glorious sun was used by the pagans long before it was adopted by Christianity.

  24. Jeroboam had not attempted to introduce polytheism, but had merely given them incarnations of the Deity, symbolising strength and fruitfulness.

  25. The only objects contained therein were a candelabrum, a table with twelve loaves, symbolising the twelve tribes; and there was also a recess for the Ark of the Covenant.

  26. The village washerman has to spread clean cloths along the path of the procession, which stops near the boundary of the village, where a leafy bower is prepared, with three pieces of stone installed in it, symbolising the god Siva.

  27. On the day devoted to the pumsavana ceremony, the wife fasts until she is fed by her husband with one grain of corn, symbolising the generative organs of the male.

  28. On the fourth day there is a ceremony, in which the bride plants a jasmine cutting, by way of symbolising help to her husband in the performance of his religious duties.

  29. Was it merely the swift extinction of those twelve brilliant tapers symbolising the Hours-of-Light which brought a sudden sense of darkness to all the pomp and magnificence?

  30. Thus we perceive what prejudice hath arisen, and yet ariseth to the true and saving doctrine, by the means of symbolising with the church of Rome in these ceremonies.


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