rare. [f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who or that which symbolizes.
† 1. A person or thing that agrees, harmonizes, or conforms with another. Obs.
But in 1st quot. perh. = That which represents something symbolically.
1607. Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr., I. ii. § 31. 107. The Emperour of Æthiopia when he goeth foorth, hath a Crosse carried before him, and an earthen pitcher full of earth: the one signifying his profession, the other his mortalitie…. It is … by the adiunct or effect of mortalitie that he Symbolizeth with the same, and a Metonimicall Symbolizer, the Crosse is as well as he.
1659. Gauden, Tears Ch., IV. xxi. 591. The discontented Presbyters of Scotland, and their ambitious Symbolizers in England.
2. = SYMBOLIST 2.
1854. Emerson, Lett. & Soc. Aims, i. (1875), 61. The poet is representative,… symbolizer, emancipator.
3. = SYMBOLIST 1.
1903. J. C. Lambert, Sacraments in N. T., ix. 370. They themselves no more think of taking ἐστι literally … than the barest symboliser does.
