Allegorize

1. (v. t.) To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

2. (v. t.) 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.

3. (v. t.) To use allegory.

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