allegorize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb interpret as an allegory
    allegorise.
  2. verb make into an allegory
    allegorise.
    • The story was allegorized over time

WordNet

Al"le*go*rize transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. allégoriser, fr. L. allegorizare.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Allegorized present participle & verbal noun Allegorizing
Definitions
  1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
  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.
Al"le*go*rize transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To use allegory. Holland.

Webster 1913