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.
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vb. (present participle of allegorize English)
Usage examples of "allegorizing".
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.