Definition of Allegorically

1. Adverb. In an allegorical manner. "The play ended allegorically"

Partainyms: Allegorical

Definition of Allegorically

1. Adverb. in an allegorical manner ¹

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Definition of Allegorically

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Allegorically

alleges
allegge
allegged
allegges
allegging
alleghanyite
allegiance
allegiances
allegiant
allegiantly
allegiants
allegiaunce
alleging
allegoric
allegorical
allegorically
allegoricalness
allegories
allegorise
allegorised
allegoriser
allegorises
allegorising
allegorist
allegorists
allegorization
allegorizations
allegorize
allegorized
allegorizer

Literary usage of Allegorically

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Hindostan: Its Arts, and Its Sciences, as Connected with the by Thomas Maurice (1795)
"... by which is allegorically to be understood the SUN in his Strength in the Lion of the Zodiac, forms the first of the TWELVE LABOURS of that Hero. ..."

2. A Handbook of the Law of Defamation and Verbal Injury by Frank Towers Cooper (1894)
"CHAPTER V MODES OF PUBLISHING DEFAMATORY MATTER Form of publication immaterial—May be by direct assertion—Or as a question—Or allegorically—Or ..."

3. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom (1886)
"is Allegorically EXPLAINED, AND HE APPLIES IT то THOSE THINGS WHICH GOD WORKS FOR SANCTIFIED AND BLESSED MAN. FINALLY, HE MAKES AN END OF THIS WORK, ..."

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