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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
allegorize
    v 1: interpret as an allegory [syn: allegorize, allegorise]
    2: make into an allegory; "The story was allegorized over time"
       [syn: allegorize, allegorise]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Allegorize \Al"le*go*rize\, v. t.
   To use allegory. --Holland.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Allegorize \Al"le*go*rize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allegorized;
   p. pr. & vb. n. Allegorizing.] [Cf. F. all['e]goriser, fr.
   L. allegorizare.]
   1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the
      history of a people.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. 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.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Allegorize:

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