[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb SYMBOLIZE.
1. Agreement in nature or qualities, resemblance, congruity, analogy (obs.); agreement in tenets or practices, conformity, compliance (now rare or obs.).
1605. [see SYMBOLIZE v. 2].
1607. (title) A Scholasticall Discovrse against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies: especially in the Signe of the Crosse.
1641. Answ. Vind. Smectymnuus, 58. Could you instance, This prayer is Superstitious, that Idolatrous,… you might have just reason to except at any touch of our symbolizing with them.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Kent (1662), I. 62. There is a great Symbolizing betwixt them in many concurrences.
1759. Hume, Hist. Eng., II. ii. 506. Every compliance, they said, was a symbolizing with Antichrist.
1822. R. Hall, Notes Serm., v. Wks. 1832, V. 35. Though unitarians repel … the charge of symbolizing with deists.
2. The action of using symbols, or of representing something by a symbol.
1887. Browning, Parleyings, B. de Mandeville, viii. What need of symbolizing? Fitlier men Would take on tongue mere facts.
1908. Expositor, March, 251. Shortening and symbolizing of imitative curses and prayers is an often observed phenomenon.
