symbolicsn.
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society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > symbolic writing
jargon1594
signance1610
symbolics1657
symbolization1842
symbolism1864
symbolography1865
sematography1901
1657 T. Hobbes Στιγμαι in Wks. (1845) VII. 379 The best masters of symbolics.
2. The study of creeds and confessions of faith, as a branch of theology.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > branches of theology > [noun] > symbolics
symbolism1846
symbolics1847
symbolic1864
symbolo-fideism1903
1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Symbolics, the science of creeds.
1885 P. Schaff Christ & Christianity 5 The new name of Symbolics, which includes Irenics as well as Polemics. Symbolics is the science of symbols or creeds. It is comparative dogmatics.
1907 C. G. McCrie Confessions Church of Scotl. v. 209 Professor Philip Schaff..the greatest Protestant authority on Symbolics, set forth the uses of creeds in four particulars.
3. The study of symbols, or of symbolic rites and ceremonies, as a branch of anthropology.
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the world > people > science of mankind > [noun] > anthropology > cultural or social
ethography1788
symbolics1850
agriology1878
social anthropology1881
culturology1920
cultural anthropology1938
psychographics1968
garbology1972
1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. Symbolics, the name given by the Germans to the study of the symbols and mysterious rites of antiquity.
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