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Definition of Allegorizing
1. allegorize [v] - See also: allegorize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allegorizing
Literary usage of Allegorizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"We must not twist Scripture, but let it tell its own simple truth.1 allegorizing
for the meaning of the writers, and reading the Bible into threefold and ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"On the contrary, Origen, the moulder of the allegorizing type of commentary, who
had inherited the Philonic tradition of the Alexandrian Jews, ..."
3. Homer: An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1887)
"He combined two modes of allegorizing which tation. afterwards ... an allegorizing
explanation, from the Neoplatonic point of view, of the cave of the ..."
4. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Allan Menzies, Novatianus (1868)
"For so Aratus expresses himself: " The right-foot's track of the Dragon fierce
possessing."1 CHAPTER XLVIII. Invention of the Lyre—allegorizing the ..."
5. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Alexander James William Morrison (1852)
"He was the author of a diffuse commentary, full of arbitrary, allegorizing
expositions on various books of Scripture and passages of sacred history. ..."
6. The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation Shewn from the State by John Leland (1819)
"... part of the Pagan poetic theology by allegorizing the most indecent fables.
They even apologized for the Egyptian animal worship, which the generality ..."
7. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"And here by the way we may observe, that this business of allegorizing in matters
of religion had not its first and only rise amongst the Christians, ..."
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