Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer or an inventor of emblems.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A writer or inventor of emblems.
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- noun A writer or inventor of
emblems .
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Examples
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It is pleasant to learn from Bodin that Alciato, the famous lawyer and emblematist, was one of those who "laughed and made others laugh at the evidence relied on at the trials, insisting that witchcraft was a thing impossible and fabulous, and so softened the hearts of judges (in spite of the fact that an inquisitor had caused to burn more than a hundred sorcerers in
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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