ETYM French emblčme, Latin emblema, -atis, that which is put in or on, inlaid work. Related to In, and Parable.
1. A visible symbol of an abstract idea.
2. Special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.
Any visible symbol; a moral maxim expressed pictorially with an explanatory epigram. Books of emblems were popular in Renaissance Europe. The first emblem book was by Andrea Alciati of Milan; first printed in Augsburg 1531, it had some 175 editions in several languages. In England Emblems 1635, a religious work, was compiled by Francis Quarles (1592–1644).

To emblembatize.