What is "allegorical"

Usage examples of "allegorical".

They bear, in the context of these infantile biographical associations, no anagogical, transpersonal relevancy whatsoever, but are allegorical merely of childhood desires frustrated by actual or imagined parental prohibitions and threats.

The philosophers of the Platonic school, Plotinus, Porphyry, and the divine Iamblichus, were admired as the most skilful masters of this allegorical science, which labored to soften and harmonize the deformed features of Paganism.

They soon got to understand one another, yet for a long while merely communicated by means of notes at fetes, or during the performance of allegorical ballets and operettas, the airs in which sufficiently expressed the nature of such missives.

Venus over her native seas, and the mild influence which her presence diffused in the palace of Milan, express to every age the natural sentiments of the heart, in the just and pleasing language of allegorical fiction.

An allegorical interpretation, in the form, perhaps, of a marginal note, invaded the text of the Latin Bibles, which were renewed and corrected in a dark period of ten centuries.

The worthy friend of Athanasius, the worthy antagonist of Julian, he bravely wrestled with the Arians and Polytheists, and though he affected the rigor of geometrical demonstration, his commentaries revealed the literal and allegorical sense of the Scriptures.

Perhaps an extravagant fable of the times may conceal an allegorical picture of these fanatics, who tortured each other and themselves.

Plato wrote for the Athenians, and his allegorical genius is too closely blended with the language and religion of Greece.

To all that only your mandate of accusation and allegorical sermons are lacking.

His idea was to start people at one level of development and, using the transcendent or allegorical method, work them up to gnosis.

Or suppose, rather, not a lotus -- for associated with the lotus are a lot of well-known allegorical references: suppose I lifted a buttercup and asked for the meaning of a buttercup!

The parquet floor, the great wall panels, the allegorical ceiling dangling its chandeliers: all must be erected and connected, and suffusing and refracting golden light.

Of course, if the story is an allegorical one, the fictional rendition of a mythical act by a mythical Jesus, the case goes out the window.

Galilean kingdom preaching movement he was a part of, one that had developed some idea of a teaching founder whom Paul shows no knowledge of, with an allegorical rendering of the spiritual Christ myth placed in the same earthly setting.

He must needs weave his phantasy into some quietly melancholy fabric of didactic or allegorical cast, in which his meekly resigned cynicism may display with naive moral appraisal the perfidy of a human race which he cannot cease to cherish and mourn despite his insight into its hypocrisy.