1650s, from symbol + -ic, or from Greek symbolikos. Related: Symbolical (c. 1600); symbolically.
symbolic thinking
symbolic logic
symbolic operations
the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish
symbolic art
sym-
Symbionese
symbiosis
symbiotic
symbol
symbolic
symbolise
symbolism
symbolist
symbolization
symbolize
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