ALLEGORIZE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

2.
v.

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.

3.
v.

To use allegory. Holland.

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