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emblematical

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em·blem·at·ic  (mbl-mtk) or em·blem·at·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
Of, relating to, or serving as an emblem; symbolic.
[French emblématique, from Medieval Latin emblmaticus, of an emblem, from Latin emblma, emblmat-, emblem; see emblem.]
emblem·ati·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.emblematical - 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"
emblematic, symbolic, symbolical
representative - standing for something else; "the bald eagle is representative of the United States"


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Had there been painters in those days capable to execute such a subject, the Jew, as he bent his withered form, and expanded his chilled and trembling hands over the fire, would have formed no bad emblematical personification of the Winter season.
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