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Allegorize   Listen
verb
Allegorize  v. t.  (past & past part. allegorized; pres. part. allegorizing)  
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.





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"Allegorize" Quotes from Famous Books



... the many attempts, old and new, to allegorize the Olympian scene, or to explain it away. From the fact that the sun keeps watch and is mentioned twice in this part, the latest school of mythologists, the comparative so-called, have taken much comfort, and have at once found in the ...
— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider


Words linked to "Allegorize" :   construe, allegorizer, alter, allegory, modify


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