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Allegorize   Listen
verb
Allegorize  v. t.  (past & past part. allegorized; pres. part. allegorizing)  
1.
To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
2.
To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.





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"Allegorize" Quotes from Famous Books



... within the last five or six years, that if ever I should feel once again the genial warmth and stir of the poetic impulse, and refer to my own experiences, I should venture on a yet stranger and wilder allegory than of yore—that I would allegorize myself as a rock, with its summit just raised above the surface of some bay or strait in the Arctic Sea, 'while yet the stern and solitary night brooked no alternate sway'—all around me fixed and firm, methought, as my own substance, and near me lofty masses, ...
— The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 • James Gillman


Words linked to "Allegorize" :   interpret, allegory, allegorizer, modify, see, construe, change, allegorise


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