symbolical

HYPHEN

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective symbolical has 2 senses

symbolical(a = adj.pert) symbolic - relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols; "symbolic logic"; "symbolic operations"; "symbolic thinking"

Derived forms noun symbol₂, noun symbol₁

symbolical(s = adj.all) emblematic, emblematical, symbolic - serving as a visible symbol for something abstract; "a crown is emblematic of royalty"; "the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish"

Derived form noun symbol₂

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CIDE DICTIONARY

symbolical, a. [L. symbolicus, Gr. symboliko`s: cf. F. symbolique.].

Of or pertaining to a symbol or symbols; of the nature of a symbol; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; representative; as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge. [1913 Webster]

"The sacrament is a representation of Christ's death by such symbolical actions as he himself appointed." [1913 Webster]

Symbolical delivery (Law), the delivery of property sold by delivering something else as a symbol, token, or representative of it. Bouvier. Chitty. -- Symbolical philosophy, the philosophy expressed by hieroglyphics.

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THESAURUS

symbolical

allegoric, allegorical, anagogic, associational, connotational, connotative, definable, demonstrative, denominative, denotational, denotative, designative, diagnostic, emblematic, evidential, exhibitive, expressive, extended, extensional, figural, figurative, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, glossematic, iconic, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, lexemic, lexical, meaning, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical, morphemic, naming, pathognomonic, peculiar, phrasal, pithy, pointed, pregnant, readable, referential, representative, semantic, semantological, semasiological, sememic, semiotic, sententious, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, substantial, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, transferred, typical, verbal

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