Also 7 emblazen, imblazon. [f. EN- + BLAZON v.]
1. trans. To inscribe or portray conspicuously, as on a heraldic shield; to adorn or inscribe with heraldic devices, words, etc. lit. and fig. Sometimes influenced by EMBLAZE v.1
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 54–5. God … emblazond the aire with the tokens of his terror.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. x. 55. On which … Cupid with his killing bow And cruell shafts emblazond she beheld.
1735. Somerville, Chase, II. 385. Th’ Imperial Standard waves Emblazon’d rich with Gold.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk., I. 205. A carriage emblazoned with arms.
1831. Blakey, Free-will (1848), 155. The orbs which emblazon the canopy of heaven.
1872. Morley, Voltaire (1886), 7. He … emblazoned it on a banner.
2. To celebrate, extol, ‘blaze abroad’; to render illustrious.
1592. Nashe, P. Penilesse (ed. 2), 18 b. It is better for a Nobleman … to haue his … deedes emblazond by a Poet, than a Citizen.
1629. Gaule, Pract. The., 31. Requisite it was our … King should have … his Prophets as Heraulds to emblazen his Progresse.
1720. Welton, Suffer. Son of God, I. vii. 138. God Emblazon’d any of His Servants, by Joyning Their Name to His own.
1761. New Comp. Festiv. & Fasts, xxiv. 213. Prejudice would have prompted to them to emblazon the least appearence of fraud.
1819–30. Lingard, Hist. Eng., VI. 225. Their success … was emblazoned to catch the eye of the public.
1839. Longf., Coplas de Manr. Heroes emblazoned high to fame.
