allegorize, allegorise

t. & i. [In Ger. allegorisiren; Fr. allegoriser: Sp. ale go rizar; Port. allegorisar; from Later Lat. alle gorizo.] A. Transitive: To convert into an allegory; to interpret allegorically; to explain in a figurative sense. "An alchyınist shall reduce divinity to the maxims of his laboratory, explain morality by sal, sulphur, and mercury, and allegorize the Scripture itself, and the sacred mysteries thereof, into the philosopher's stone.-Locke. hath very wittily allegorized this tree, allowing his supposition of the tree itself to be true."- Raleigh , "As some would allegorize these signs, so others would confine them to the the destruction destru of Jerusalem." -Burnet: Theory. B. Intransitive: To use allegory, to speak in a figurative manner. (Sometimes followed by upon , of , regarding , .) "After his manner, he allegorizeth upon the sacrifices of the law."- Fulke against Allen , p. 223. "Origen knew not the Pope's purgatory, though he allegorize of a certain purgatory." Ibid . , p. p. 447. al-lě-gor-ized, pa. par. & a. [ALLEGORIZE.]