symbolics

From French symbolique or Latin symbolicus, from Ancient Greek συμβολικός (sumbolikós, “of or belonging to a symbol”).

• Rhymes: -ɒlɪks

symbolics (uncountable)

1. The study of ancient symbols.
2. (theology) The study of that branch of historic theology which treats of creeds and confessions of faith.
3. Symbolism.

• symbol
• symbolical
• symbolically
• symbolic
• symbolicism
• symbolisation Br.
• symbolise Br.
• symbolism
• symbolist
• symbolistic
• symbolization
• symbolize
• symbology
• symbolology

• “symbolics”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.