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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Allegorize

· Al·le·go·rize · IPA /ˈæləˌɡɔˌɹaɪz/
01 v. t. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
imp. & p. p. Allegorized; p. pr. & vb. n. Allegorizing
  1. 1.
    To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
  2. 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.
02 v. t. To use allegory.
  1. 1.
    To use allegory.