allegorize's Usage Examples:

allegorized passages which were not meant as allegories by their original authors.

- Theologians in all ages have allegorized this strange narrative.

Tatian does not deny the stories of the Greek mythology - indeed he protests against any attempt to allegorize it - but he insists that these stories are the record of the deeds of demons and have no religious value.

In place of the real Christ of the Christians he proclaimed himself; and the Law he allegorized in accordance with his own preconceptions.

, while the fact that the history is not allegorized suggests priority to Philo; probably the work was composed late in the 1st century B.

We are told that Simon allegorized the wooden horse and " Helen with the lamp," 2 and applied them to himself and his E7rtvoca.

'Thus Philo had, in his life of Moses, allegorized the Pentateuchal narratives so as to represent him as mediator, saviour, intercessor of his people, the one great organ of revelation, and the soul's guide from the false lower world into the upper true one.

Moreover, the myths were rationalized and allegorized, which was not in either case an original procedure.

That the Osirian myth (much as it was elaborated and allegorized) originated in the same sort of fancy as the Tacullie story of the dismembered beaver out of whose body things were made is a conclusion not devoid of plausibility.

Thus Philo had, in his life of Moses, allegorized the Pentateuchal narratives so as to represent him as mediator, saviour, intercessor of his people, the one great organ of revelation, and the soul's guide from the false lower world into the upper true one.

In this sense he was the pattern if not the " father " of all such as allegorize and reconcile.

Synonyms:

change, allegorise, modify, alter,

Antonyms:

stiffen, decrease, tune, dissimilate, detransitivize,