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Definition of Allegorizes
1. allegorize [v] - See also: allegorize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allegorizes
Literary usage of Allegorizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Allan Menzies, Novatianus (1868)
"... the Sabbath—allegorizes the Rod of Moses—Notion concerning the Decalogue.
The world, then, as Moses says, was made in six days, that is, by six powers, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"... hushing infants to sleep” allegorizes evening; “a girl strewing flowers”
allegorizes spring; “Hagar and Abraham' allegorize the ..."
3. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1892)
"Josephus, when he is telling the story of the Garden of Eden as given in Genesis,
says, " Here Moses allegorizes " ; and we may say, Here the writer of this ..."
4. Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture by Leo Wiener (1921)
"Augustine meant to say that the cub allegorizes the birth of Christ of his own
free will, even as the lion allegorizes his death of his own free will, ..."
5. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1841)
"Thus Paul allegorizes the history of Hagar and Sarah, in his Epistle to the ...
He allegorizes this very history of Sarah and Hagar, although in a different ..."
6. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1849)
"... said by himself, that is, Paul allegorizes these things. 3. There is thus a
great difference in the original passage here from the others referred to ..."
7. Christ in History: Or, The Central Power Among Men by Robert Turnbull (1854)
"He allegorizes the simplest facts, adding or retrenching, ... Jesus never
allegorizes the facts and doctrines of the Old Testament; but, extracting its ..."
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