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English Dictionary: Allegorizing by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Allegorize \Al"le*go*rize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Allegorized};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Allegorizing}.] [Cf. F. all[82]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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