symbolize

verb

Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmbəlaɪz/

Etymology: From Middle French symboliser.

To be symbolic of; to represent.
“Doves often symbolize peace.”
“The broken chain symbolizes freedom.”
To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
To convert something into a symbol.
“The overwhelming majority of these poems consists of wedding-songs, intended for the various ceremonies of the wedding and the daily festivities of the first week after the wedding. But these are not wedding-songs in the ordinary sense. In them, the wedding is symbolized. The poet speaks, indeed, of bride and bridegroom. But thereby he in no sense signifies the young human pair, but rather, true to cabbalistic implication, he intends the bridegroom to be God while the bride is the personified people of Israel.”
To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
“The pleasing of colour symbolizeth with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth symbolize with harmony.”
“They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.”
To hold the same faith; to agree.
“The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.”