symbolizer rare.
(ˈsɪmbəlaɪzə(r))
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
One who or that which symbolizes.
† 1. A person or thing that agrees, harmonizes, or conforms with another. Obs.
But in 1st quot. perh. = That which represents something symbolically.
| 1607 Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. ii. §31. 107 The Emperour of æthiopia when he goeth foorth, hath a Crosse carried before him, and an earthen pitcher full of earth: the one signifying his profession, the other his mortalitie... It is..by the adiunct or effect of mortalitie that he Symbolizeth with the same, and a Metonimicall Symbolizer, the Crosse is as well as he. 1659 Gauden Tears Ch. iv. xxi. 591 The discontented Presbyters of Scotland, and their ambitious Symbolizers in England. |
2. = symbolist 2.
| 1854 Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims i. (1875) 61 The poet is representative,..symbolizer, emancipator. |
3. = symbolist 1.
| 1903 J. C. Lambert Sacraments in N.T. ix. 370 They themselves no more think of taking ἐστι literally..than the barest symboliser does. |