[f. SYMBOL sb.1]
1. trans. = SYMBOLIZE 3.
1832. Examiner, 595/1. English Justice, being, as she is symboled, hoodwinked.
1861. Meredith, Evan Harrington, xi. Bread and cheese symbolled his condition.
1864. Tennyson, Aylmer’s F., 535. [She] read; and tore, As if the living passion symbol’d there were living nerves to feel the rent.
1874. Symonds, Sk. Italy & Greece (1898), I. xi. 213. Angels … with fluttering skirts … and mouths that symbol singing.
2. intr. To make signs, to signal. nonce-use.
1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVI. i. IV. 248. They say and symbol to me, ‘Tell us of him!’
