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whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.

Pertaining to egoism. [R.]

of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.

One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self. I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness. Carlyle.

Pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving. Ill-natured feeling, or egoistic pleasure in making men miserable. G. Eliot.

In an egoistic manner.

Personality. [R.] Swift.

Egoism. [R.] A. Baxter.

Belonging to, or resembling, egophony.

The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.

The deification of self. [R.]

magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism. His excessive egotism, which filled all objects with himself. Hazlitt.

One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs.

Addicted to, or manifesting, egotism.

With egotism.

To talk or write as an egotist. Cowper.

Same as Egophony.

Going before; foregoing.

Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. "An allegoric tale." Falconer. "An allegorical application." Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. Al`le*gor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor"ic*…

One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.