We show forth the Lord’s death in the act of receiving, by using the signs and symbols of his body broken, and his blood shed for us, and by meditating upon his death thereby represented.
This makes Zanchius(559) to call those ceremonies the relics and symbols of popish idolatry and superstition.
So the symbols of Romanticism became the realities of Bohemia after all that they symbolized was as lifeless as a cancelled bank-note.
Those who remained, the most advanced of the initiated, saw that the time had come for the casting away of symbols and the cessation of noisy worship.
Many passages in the Upanishads are full of struggles to represent Brahma by symbols or forms perceptible to the sense, such as ether, breath, the sun, etc.
This popular religion seems to be a hopeless one, without ideals and symbols of love and hope.
El Dorado and his realm have long been symbols of the elusive gold sought by mankind in all ages and every clime.
Astride his ancient pony hung with chance trappings, symbols of association, with axe and rifle with which he conquered the wilderness, he broods the past.
In "The Triumph of the Field," Man sits upon the skeleton head of a steer, surrounded by a multitude of symbols indicative of festivals of agricultural success in the past.
Among them stand not only representatives of trades and crafts, with their symbols and implements, but also the Art of Motherhood and the Art of Play shown by a happy child.
On the leather trappings of the old Pioneer's horse, the tepee, the canoe and other symbols of Indian life are marked.
On the distribution maps solid symbols indicate localities from which we have examined specimens; open symbols represent additional locality records based on the literature.
Sometimes they are more fanciful, as when they are suggested by male and female figures within circles, wrapping their faces in their mantles; and here they are symbols of the supernatural darkness of the first Good Friday.
Natural objects and phenomena are the original symbols or types which express our thoughts and feelings.
They are not symbols of the moral nature, like Melville's men, but they are nevertheless phases of personality and therefore they shift and dim from story to story, like lanterns in a wood.
Yet American scholars, having little or no root in the soil, commonly strive with all their might to confine themselves to the imported symbols alone.
This treating of large themes by highly personal symbols makes possible Mrs. Wharton's admirable perfection of technique.
The emphasis shifts from external symbols of the immensities of good and evil to the behavior of personality under stress.
When we wish to indicate molecules of these gases the symbols N{2} and O{2} should be used.
When a given substance undergoes a chemical change it is possible to represent this change by the use of such symbols and formulas.
The use of symbols and formulas in expressing chemical changes has another great advantage.
The symbols are included in the list of elements given in the Appendix.
These simple calculations are possible because the symbols and formulas in the equations represent the relative weights of the substances concerned in a chemical reaction.
In these equations it will be noted that the symbols stand for as many grams of the substance as there are units in the weights of the atoms represented by the symbols.
Univalent hydrogen and divalent oxygen will then have the symbols H- and -O-.
The combination of symbols which represents the molecule of a substance is called its formula.
This can be done very easily by using the symbols of the atoms to indicate the number and the kind of the atoms which constitute the molecule.
These types and symbols of virtue and vice are specially needed by fallen beings.
How Christ unfolded the deepest spiritual truths by the symbols of Nature!
The world is full of most suggestive symbols and emblems of moral good and evil.
In general all those symbols referred to above, commonly called emblems, which might also be defined as short painted fables with obvious morals, belong to this class.
Such symbols may often be of use in life, but their value is foreign to art.
They have patience and memory for abstract principles, formulas, demonstrations in long trains of reasoning, and calculations, in which the symbols represent the most complicated abstractions.
The interpretation of the symbols by which the retina represents the external world has been, whether for the race or for the individual, no short or simple process.
All inward visions are like symbols abridged from a picture-alphabet.
Surely poetry and tradition have but here divined certain truths, omnipotent behind a veil, and recognized their symbols in these chosen blossoms?
He occasionally made a few mystic symbols to assist his memory, which no one understood except himself.
It has already been shown how this principle is disregarded; but take, for further illustration, the symbols indicating silence.
Let us now examine the symbolsrepresenting the prolongation of a sound.
The causes of the obscurity of musical notation are numerous, but the most prolific is undoubtedly expressing time by the form of the symbols of sound.
There are the symbols of intonation, the numerals and the dot--the dot below or above the notes showing the octave ([5.
Indian symbols for the human figure, and again suggestive perhaps of the Wolf, Turtle, and Turkey brotherhood of the Lenapes.
As clan badges, both symbols were in common use among most of the Indian tribes.
It contains the Delaware account of the creation, a deluge, the early migrations and entire history of the tribe, and one hundred and eighty-four mnemonic symbols painted upon tablets of wood.
For the Introduction gives a rapid view of the holiday's origin and development, its relation to cognate pagan festivals, the customs and symbols of its observance in different lands, and the significance and spirit of the day.
Hear, hear what is before me: When a young novice comes to them they give him the symbols of purity: a spade, an apron, and a white robe to wear at the holy meals.
For every letter in the alphabet, foursymbols had been used interchangeably but whether they pointed up or down or right or left, their significance was the same.
Sun and moon and cloud and the fiery color-pot of the firmament write their symbols upon the horizon for gypsy eyes to read.
The samesymbols are found to make the original elements of all languages.
Possessed himself by a heroic passion, he uses matter as symbols of it.
A considerable length of time was, moreover, needed to elaborate from the twenty-two borrowed Semitic symbols the full Brahmi alphabet of forty-six letters.
Fat sides and bald heads are the symbols of music, innocence, and meek submission.
Long live the fiddle and the bow, the symbols of their mirth and merriment!
When symbols become transparent, they have no further binding force.
We live on symbols, and even on the symbols of symbols; we have never grasped or verified things for ourselves; we judge everything, and we know nothing.
However, even upon this hypothesis, if there were but one absolute beginning, relative beginnings would still remain to us as multiple symbols of the absolute.
Everybody knows mathematicians speak of solutions and problems as "elegant," and they tell you that a certain mass of mystic symbols is "beautiful, quite lovely.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "symbols" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
