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Allegorized

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.

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allegorized

vb. (en-past of: allegorize)

Usage examples of "allegorized".

The Church would produce many great philosophers (reason), and many great psychic and subtle mystics, but no matter how much these realizers tried to downplay the myths, no matter how much they allegorized them or as-iffed them or interpreted them away, there was always the one fundamental dogma that hung like a weight around their attempts to transcend, that crashed down on their shoulders and pinned them to the ground and never but never budged an inch: the utterly unique and nonreproducible realization of Jesus.