gorye

[In Sw. allegori; Dan. and Ger. allegorie; Fr. allégorie Sp. alegoria; Ital. and Lat. allegoria; Gr. άλληγορία ( allēgori a ); fr. ἄλλος ( allos ) = another, and ἀγορεύω ( ago reud) = to speak in the a embly, to harangue; ἀγορά ( agora ) = an a embly, the forum; ἀγείρω ( ageiro ) = to bring together.] 1. A discourse designed to convey a different meaning from that which it directly expre es. A figure of speech or a literary composition in which a speaker or writer gives forth not the actual narrative, description, or whatever else he seeks to present, but one so much resembling it as on reflection to suggest it, and bring it home to the mind with greater force and effect than if it had been told directly. In many cases the description given appeals to the eye, whilst the truth designed to be conveyed is one of a moral or spiritual kind. As a quotation already made [ALLEGORIST] shows, Macaulay considered John Bunyan as unquestionably the first of allegorists; and every reader of the "Pilgrim's Progre " will at once understand both what an allegory is, and how effectual a vehicle it can be made for the communication of religious knowledge. Spenser's "Faerie Queene" is a moral allegory. A brief allegory may be considered as a single metaphor; a long one as a series of metaphors . The distinction between an allegory and a parable is very slight. Crabbe says that a parable is mostly employed for moral purposes, and an allegory in describing historical events. The latter differs from a riddle or enigma in not being intended to perplex. For the distinction between an allegory and a myth, see the subjoined example from Max Müller. clopædia "The difference between a myth and an allegory has been simply but most happily explained by Profe or Blackie in his article on Mythology in Chambers ' Cyclopædia, Amyth is not to be confounded with an allegory; the one being an unconscious act of the popular mind at an early stage of society; the other, s conscious act of the individual mind at any stage of social progre .' " -Max Müller : Science of Language, (6th ed., 1871), vol. il., p. 430. And thus it was: I writing of the way And race of saints, in tnis our gospel day, Fell suddenly into an allegory About their journey, and the way to glory...." Bunyan: Apology for Pil . Prog. "But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory ."-Gal. iv. 23, 24. In the pa age from Galatians the only place in the Authorised Version of the Bible in which the word allegory occurs it is a mistranslation, and should disappear. The rendering should be "Which things are allegorised." 2. Painting and Sculpture: A figurative representation of something else than that which is actually painted or sculptured. ǎl-le-grět-tō, a. or adv., & 8. [Ital. dim in. of allegro = joyful; somewhat joyful.] Music: As adv. & adj.: With pace and character livelier than that indicated by the word andante , but le rapid and brilliant than that denoted by allegro (q.v.). As substantive : A movement in the time now described.