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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1616
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Symboliz(e, v. [e.m.E. symbolize (1591), F. symboliser (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), med. L. symbolizare (13th c. in Latham), f. L. symbolus, -um.] tr. Only in Hume Orthog.: To represent by means of (with) a symbol. Also absol. — c1616 Hume Orthog. 11.
A consonant is a letter symbolizing a sound articulat … with the tuiches of the mouth c1616 Hume Orthog. 12.
Our men … quho had wont to symboliz yallou with an z c1616 Hume Orthog. 14.
Let it [sc. the sound tch] be symbolized with ch … because it hath bene lang soe used c1616 Hume Orthog. 18.
A labial letter can not symboliz a guttural syllab —absol. c1616 Hume Orthog. 17.
To symboliz right, the sound of the voual is first to be observed, quhither it be a simple voual or a compound
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