Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AL'LE-GO-RIZE
AL'LE-GO-RIZE, v.t.
- To form an allegory; to turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. – Campbell.
- To understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may be understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense, is said to allegorize it.
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