The Collaborative International Dictionary
Allegorize \Al"le*go*rize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allegorized; p. pr. & vb. n. Allegorizing.] [Cf. F. all['e]goriser, fr. L. allegorizare.]
To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
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.
Allegorize \Al"le*go*rize\, v. t.
To use allegory.
--Holland.
Wiktionary
vb. (alternative spelling of allegorise English)
WordNet
v. interpret as an allegory [syn: allegorise]
make into an allegory; "The story was allegorized over time" [syn: allegorise]
Usage examples of "allegorize".
In the above incidents, those gentle moralizers who find the serious philosophy of the music dramas too terrifying for them, may allegorize pleasingly on the philtre as the maddening chalice of passion which, once tasted, causes the respectable man to forget his lawfully wedded wife and plunge into adventures which eventually lead him headlong to destruction.
Christians reject the allegorizing of the Jews, and yet traditionally accept, on their authority, doctrines which can be deduced from their Scriptures in no other way than by the absurd hypothesis of a double or mystic sense.
There is no less than a score of mystic allegorizing sects3 who reduce almost every thing in the Koran to symbol, or spiritual signification, and some of whom as the Sufis are the most rapt and imaginative of all the enthusiastic devotees in the world.
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.