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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



... of the author was "the ridicule of enthusiasm—the contrast of the heroic with the vulgar"—and he sees something profoundly sad in the conclusions to which it leads. This sort of criticism appears to be over-refined. It resembles the efforts of some commentators to allegorize the great epics of Homer and Virgil, throwing a disagreeable mistiness over the story by converting mere shadows into substances, ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various


Words linked to "Allegorize" :   see, allegorizer, allegorise, construe


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