About The Word Allegorize
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Allegorize
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What's The Definition Of Allegorize?
[v] make into an allegory; of stories
[v] interpret as an allegory Synonyms | Synonyms for Allegorize: allegorise | allegorise Related Terms | Find terms related to Allegorize: account for | allude to | assume | bring to mind | clarify | clear up | connote | crack | decipher | demonstrate | demythologize | elucidate | enlighten | entail | euhemerize | exemplify | explain | explain away | explicate | exposit | expound | fable | fabulize | fictionalize | give reason for | give the meaning | hint | illuminate | illustrate | implicate | imply | import | infer | insinuate | intimate | involve | make clear | make plain | mean | mean to say | mythicize | mythify | mythologize | narrate | novelize | point indirectly to | popularize | presume | presuppose | rationalize | recite | recount | rehearse | relate | report | retell | romance | shed light upon | show | show how | show the way | simplify | solve | spell out | storify | suggest | suppose | take for granted | tell | tell a story | throw light upon | unfold | unfold a tale | unlock | unravel See Also | alter | change | construe | interpret | see Allegorize In Webster's Dictionary \Al"le*go*rize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Allegorized};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Allegorizing}.] [Cf. F. all['e]goriser, fr.
L. allegorizare.]
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.
\Al"le*go*rize\, v. t. To use allegory. --Holland. |
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