EMBLEM, this word is used frequently as A. synonym with Attribute, Symbol, Image, and Allegorical Figure. So in discriminately are these terms employed, that it becomes a task of great difficulty to point out their special application, and it toast be admitted that. the shades of difference are so light, that it would be most convenient to regard them all under the general term Symbol. Thus the sceptre is the attribute of royalty, and the emblem or symbol of power. The Paschal Lamb of the Jews figures the Lamb. without stain, which has expiated the sins of the world ; hut as Jesus Christ has been depicted under this em blem in the New Testament, this emblem becomes a symbol. And to remove all uncertainty in depicting this symbol in Christian Art, we give to the Lamb a nimbus upon which is figured a cross : or the Cross of the Resurrection, or simply place a moss above its head; these are the attributes which distinguish it from other figures of a lamb, which are neither emblems nor symbols. An emblem is a
symbolical figure or e' roposition which conceals a moral or historical allegory ; when accompanied with smile sententious phrase which determines its meaning, it has the same relation as device. EMBLEM A'TA, the figures with which the ancients decorated golden, silver, and even copper vessels, and which could be taken off at pleasure. These belong to toreutio art, and were generally exe cuted in the precious metals, but some times carved in amber. The Romans had the Greek term emblemata, but ap plied the word erustte to the ornaments mentioned above. The Greek term is handed down to us in our word emblem, a sign or symbol.
EAUBLEMENTs, in law, a word used for the produce of land sown or planted by a tenant for life or years, whose estate is determined suddenly after the land is sown or planted, and before a harvest.