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al⋅le⋅go⋅rize

  [al-i-guh-rahyz] verb, -rized, -riz⋅ing.
Use allegorize in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to make into an allegory; narrate allegorically.
2. to understand in an allegorical sense; interpret allegorically.
–verb (used without object)
3. to use allegory.
Also, especially British, al⋅le⋅go⋅rise.

Origin:
1425–75; late ME < LL allēgorīzāre; see allegory, -ize

Related forms:
al⋅le⋅go⋅ri⋅za⋅tion, noun
al⋅le⋅go⋅riz⋅er, noun
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al·le·go·rize   (āl'ĭ-gô-rīz', -gō-, -gə-)   
v.   al·le·go·rized, al·le·go·riz·ing, al·le·go·riz·es

v.   tr.

  1. To express as or in the form of an allegory: a story of barnyard animals that allegorizes the fate of Soviet socialism.

  2. To interpret allegorically: allegorize the quest for the Holy Grail as an inner spiritual search.

v.   intr.
To use or make allegory: sculptors who rendered the moral world by allegorizing.
al'le·go'ri·za'tion (-gôr'ĭ-zā'shən, -gōr', -gŏr') n., al'le·go·riz'er n.
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