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The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.

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

One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.

A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.…

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Hom…

Relating to the archegonium.

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

Spontaneous generation; abiogenesis.

A stupid fellow. [Obs.] Shak.

See Asinego.

To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify. [Obs.] "Begodded saints." South.

A unit of resistance equal to one billion ohms, or one thousand megohms.

Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.

A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one- sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.

To besmear with gore.

imp. & p. p. of Beget.

p. p. of Beget.

One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

Branchiostegal.

Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.