Sentence examples for symbolical from inspiring English sources

The morals, law, administration of justice, and the customs and habits of a society contain religious symbols and symbolical actions, as in the anointing of a king and in the administering of the oath or ordeal or in the observance of traditions and customs associated with birth, marriage, and death.

Magic, in its ritual, also uses various formations of symbols, pictures, and symbolical actions that may be seen as parallels to the distinctively religious use of symbols.

In particular they did not use the word "variable"; the letter x in an expression like 2x + 5 was called a symbol, hence the name "symbolical algebra".

The law of idempotent class symbols, x2 = x, was different from the two fundamental laws of symbolical algebra it only applied to the individual elective symbols, not in general to compound terms that one could build from these symbols.

With allegory paramount in the Middle Ages, the Western Church could not escape attributing symbolical values to garments whose origin may have owed little to symbolism.

In the long history of the forms of symbolical expression a narrower (exclusive) and broader (inclusive) idea of what a symbol is has gradually evolved.

This is why RENTA's use of "Aunties" in their campaign is significant, as it reconstructs the affectionate and symbolical relationship the aunt once had with her niece during her adolescence.

The way to break free from all symbolical forms of domination is subversion.