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Allegorize   Listen
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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



... not peculiar to Joseph, but, as Dr. Hudson says here, is derived from older authors, as if four of the greatest rivers in the world, running two of them at vast distances from the other two, by some means or other watered paradise, is hard to say. Only since Josephus has already appeared to allegorize this history, and take notice that these four names had a particular signification; Phison for Ganges, a multitude; Phrath for Euphrates, either a dispersion or a flower; Diglath for Tigris, what is swift, with narrowness; ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus



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



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