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Definition of Allegorical
1. Adjective. Used in or characteristic of or containing allegory. "An allegorical painting of Victory leading an army"
Similar to: Representative
Derivative terms: Allegory, Allegory, Allegory, Allegory
Definition of Allegorical
1. Adjective. of, relating to, or containing allegory ¹
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Definition of Allegorical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allegorical
Literary usage of Allegorical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"The second feature is the allegorical interpretation. ... The allegorical method
of Philo neither proves nor attempts to prove anything. ..."
2. English Pageantry: An Historical Outline by Robert Withington (1918)
"In 1377 there was a castle; in 1432 Lydgate gave allegorical names to the personages
in a ... The allegorical element is an important one, as we shall see; ..."
3. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1911)
"allegorical interpretation represents that conservative religious progress ...
This was a fundamental reason for allegorical interpretation with Greeks, ..."
4. The Infallibility of the Church: A Course of Lectures Delivered in the by George Salmon (1890)
"And Heracleon, who was evidently a disciple of the same school of allegorical
interpretation, has no difficulty in finding Valen- ..."
5. The English Moralities from the Point of View of Allegory by William Roy Mackenzie (1914)
"CHAPTER III allegorical ELEMENTS IN THE MIRACLE PLAYS The most important of the
Miracle cycles, from the point of view of the student of Moralities, ..."
6. The Christian Examiner (1837)
"On the Origin of allegorical Interpretation. [The subject of allegorical
Interpretation is of essential importance to be attended to in the study of the ..."
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