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Allegorize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To express as or in the form of an allegory: a story of barnyard animals that allegorizes the fate of Soviet socialism.

v. To interpret allegorically: allegorize the quest for the Holy Grail as an inner spiritual search.

verb-intransitive. To use or make allegory: sculptors who rendered the moral world by allegorizing.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Alternative spelling of allegorise.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To form or turn into allegory.

v. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense.

v. To use allegory.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To turn into allegory; narrate in allegory; treat allegorically: as, to allegorize the history of a people.

To understand in an allegorical sense; interpret allegorically: as, when a passage in an author may be understood either literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense allegorizes it.

To use allegory: as, a man may allegorize to please his fancy.

Also spelled allegorise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. interpret as an allegory

v. make into an allegory

Word Usage

"Augustine's "solution" to this problem was to allegorize the living daylights out of Genesis so it would support almost any theory."

Verb Form

allegorized allegorizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

see interpret construe change modify

Form

allegorized allegorizing