ALLEGORIZE

allegorize, allegorise

(verb) make into an allegory; “The story was allegorized over time”

allegorize, allegorise

(verb) interpret as an allegory

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

allegorize (third-person singular simple present allegorizes, present participle allegorizing, simple past and past participle allegorized)

Alternative spelling of allegorise

Source: Wiktionary


Al"le*go*rize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allegorized; p. pr. & vb. n. Allegorizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. allégoriser, fr. L. allegorizare.]

1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

2. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.

Al"le*go*rize, v. t.

Definition: To use allegory. Holland.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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