Also 7 embleme. [f. prec.] trans. To be the emblem of (something); to express, symbolize or suggest by means of an emblem. Also, To emblem forth.
1584. G. Whetstone, Mirour for Magistr. Epistle, etc., ad. fin. A v.
c. 1605. Rowley, Birth Merl., IV. v. 344. Those by-form’d fires … emblem two royal babes.
1636. Henshaw, Horæ Succ., 28. Much knowledge, not much speech, Emblem’s a wise man.
1652. Sparke, Prim. Devot. (1663), 314. To emblem forth his variety of operations.
1663. J. Spencer, Prodigies (1665), 313. This mystery of Providence was emblemed in the prophetick vision of a wheel that moved within a wheel.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, iii. (1858), 257. All Christianism, as Dante and the Middle Ages had it, is emblemed here.
1845. Neale, Mirr. Faith, 84. And Holy Church hath Her banners high To emblem her Saviour’s Victory.
