emblematicize

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verb

To render (someone or something) emblematic.

“to emblematicize a picture”

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Meanings

verbemblematicize (third-person singular simple present emblematicizes, present participle emblematicizing, simple past and past participle emblematicized)

present singular third person emblematicizes · participle present emblematicizing · participle past emblematicized · past emblematicized

  1. transitiveTo render (someone or something) emblematic.

    to emblematicize a picture

    1 more example

    He [Jacopo Amigoni] drevv the queen [Caroline of Ansbach, consort of George II] and the three eldeſt princeſſes, and prints were taken from his pictures, vvhich he generally endeavoured to emblematicize by genii and Cupids.

    1771, Horace Walpole, “Painters in the Reign of King George II”, in Anecdotes of Painting in England; […], volume IV, Strawberry-Hill [London]: […] Thomas Kirkgate, →OCLC, page 60

Origin

From emblematic + -ize.

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APA

emblematicize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emblematicize

MLA

“emblematicize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emblematicize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “emblematicize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emblematicize.

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