| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb allegorize.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (allegorize) | 1. Interpret as an allegory.[Wordnet]. 2. Make into an allegory; "The story was allegorized over time".[Wordnet]. 3. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.[Websters]. 4. 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.[Websters]. 5. To use allegory.[Websters]. 6. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: allegorizing, allegorized, allegorizes, allegorizer, allegorizers, allegorizingly and allegorizedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ALLEGORIZING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1809. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ALLEGORIZING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Turning into allegory, or understanding in all allegorical sense.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of allegorize. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
