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symbol

Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of symbol

15th century, simbal, "creed, formal summary of religious belief"

from Late Latin symbolum "creed, token, mark"
from Greek symbolon "token, watchword, sign by which one infers; ticket, a permit, license"

An assimilated form of syn- "together" + bole "a throwing, a casting, the stroke of a missile, bolt, beam" (from bol-, nominative stem of ballein "to throw")

symbol noun
  • an authoritative summary of faith or doctrine: creed
  • something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance
  • a sign used in writing or printing relating to a particular field to represent operations, quantities, elements, relations, or qualities
  • an act, sound, or object having cultural significance and the capacity to excite or objectify a response

Specifics

Specific examples and quotes of symbol

  • metaphor, metaphoric
    something that represents or stands for something else, usually an object used to represent something abstract
  • emblem, emblematic
    a picture with a motto or set of verses intended as a moral lesson; an object or the figure of an object representing and suggesting another object or an idea
  • representation, representational
    act of presenting to the mind or imagination; a letter, figure, or sign used in mathematics, music, etc., to represent a quantity, operation, function, etc.
  • token, token
    an outward sign, evidence, or expression; an instance of a linguistic expression

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Legend

~☉~lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
classic definition
artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense
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