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The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.

To whiten. See Blanch. [Obs.] Heylin.

To adorn with glittering embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope.

colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate. The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. Prescott.

One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.

The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.

An emblazoning.

The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment. Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry. Trench.

iation; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity. "His cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek." Shak.

Pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity. -- Em`blem*at"ic*al*ly, adv.

To render emblematic; as, to emblematicize a picture. [R.] Walpole.

A writer or inventor of emblems. Sir T. Browne.

To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize. Anciently the sun was commonly emblematized by a starry or radiate figure. Bp. Hurd.

nted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement. Wharton's Law Dict.

To represent by an emblem; to emblematize. [R.]

To emblossom. Savage.

To cover or adorn with blossoms. On the white emblossomed spray. J. Cunningham.

One who embodies.

The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.

st with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.] Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. South.