[f. Gr. ἐμβληματ- stem of ἔμβλημα (see EMBLEM) + -IST.] a. One who invents or makes use of pictorial emblems. b. One who composes allegories; an emblem-writer.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. iii. 236. The pictures of Emblematists in the coats of severall families.
1679. Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 262. The Emblematists usually exprest fecundity by that Animal [the Goat].
1861. Sat. Rev., 7 Dec., 591. Hearts, and darts, and butterflies, and crosses, and crowns have always formed the stock in trade of Emblematists.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. I. (1873), 138. Alciato, the famous lawyer and emblematist.
