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allegorize, v.|ˈælɪgəraɪz|
[a. Fr. allégorise-r; ad. L. allēgorīzāre, f. Gr. ἀλληγορία (see allegory), an analogous form to prophētīzāre, evangelīzāre, etc., f. assumed Gr. *ἀλληγορίζειν: see -ize.]
1. trans. To make or treat (a thing) as allegorical; to turn it into, or explain it as, an allegory.
1596Harington Metam. Ajax 6, I will not spend time to allegorize this story. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 316 Plutarch and Synesius Allegorized those Egyptian Fables of Isis and Osiris, the one to a Philosophical, the other to a Political sence. 1724A. Collins Gr. Chr. Relig. 81 The Jews began to allegorize their sacred books. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 104 His attempt to allegorise the distinction between clean and unclean animals.
2. intr.
a. To give allegoric explanations, to expound allegorically.
b. To construct, or utter, allegories.
1581Fulke Agst. Allen 223 (T.) After his manner he allegorizeth upon the sacrifices of the law. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1300 The Greeks allegorize that Saturne is time, Juno the aire. 1782Priestley Corr. Chr. I. i. 24 One method of allegorizing..took its rise in the East. 1875Masson Wordsw., Shelley, etc. 239 Some writers are not moved to allegorize so easily as others.
3. To allegorize (a person) out of (anything): to take away from by the use of allegory. To allegorize (a thing) away: to get rid of by means of allegory. ? Obs.
1667E. Chamberlayne State Gt. Brit. i. iii. i. (1743) 150 Charged with allegorising away the whole History of the Crucifixion. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 795 Our High⁓flown Enthusiasts..quite Allegorize away..the Outward Resurrection of the Body. 1726Penn Tracts Wks. I. 583 To Allegorize Christ out of His Divinity. |
