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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Allegorize \Al"le*go*rize\, v. t. To use allegory. --Holland. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: allegorize v 1: interpret as an allegory 2: make into an allegory; of stories
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