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Definition of Allegorize
1. Verb. Interpret as an allegory.
Generic synonyms: Construe, Interpret, See
Derivative terms: Allegory, Allegory, Allegory, Allegory, Allegory, Allegory
2. Verb. Make into an allegory. "The story was allegorized over time"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Allegoriser, Allegory, Allegory, Allegory, Allegorizer, Allegory, Allegory, Allegory
Definition of Allegorize
1. v. t. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
2. v. t. To use allegory.
Definition of Allegorize
1. Verb. (alternative spelling of allegorise) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Allegorize
1. [v -RIZED, -RIZING, -RIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allegorize
Literary usage of Allegorize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... because, first, to allegorize this fire into nothing but remorse of conscience,
that no doctrine can be satisfactorily proved from obscure passages, ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... commends some of the Christians for this, that they could allegorize ingeniously
and handsomely. It is well known, how both Plutarch and ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"... denote, stand lor, image, figure, prefigure, allegorize, image forth, be a
parable of. Adventure, n. I. Chance, hazard, fortuity, contingency, risk, ..."
4. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1882)
"Nor, again, have we any more right to allegorize it than we have to allegorize
any other history; far less right than the monk had in the Gesta ..."
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