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Grammar : Verb

Spell : al-i-guh-rahyz

Phonetic Transcription : ˈæl ɪ gəˌraɪz

Definition of allegorize

As in liken : verb compare
As in compare : verb liken, equate
As in illustrate : verb demonstrate, exemplify

Example sentences :

Charleston I might allegorize in the person of a young woman I met there.
Extract from : « American Adventures » by Julian Street

To this vessel the Persian poets often refer, and allegorize it in different ways.
Extract from : « Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century » by Samuel Johnson

Next come the many attempts, old and new, to allegorize the Olympian scene, or to explain it away.
Extract from : « Homer's Odyssey » by Denton J. Snider

To allegorize life with a masquerade, and represent mankind generally as masquers.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 » by Various

(c) That therefore we can allegorize Grendel and the dragon into culture-myths connected with the "god Beow."
Extract from : « Beowulf » by R. W. Chambers

And yet we see the Essenes "allegorize" the bloody altar out of their Bible, but cling to the document more fondly than ever.
Extract from : « The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity » by Arthur Lillie

All allegorize the Sun, six months above and six months below the equator.
Extract from : « Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 » by The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

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