Allegorize

[æligәraiz]

Definition

(verb.) make into an allegory; 'The story was allegorized over time'.

(verb.) interpret as an allegory.

Editor: Rosalie--From WordNet

Definition

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

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To use allegory.

Edited by Cary