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v. - Make into a symbolical narrative; Interpret as a symbolical narrative.

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Usage examples (26)
  • Why else would Augustine go to such lengths to allegorize scripture?
  • To allegorize life with a masquerade, and represent mankind generally as masquers.
  • Not to allegorize farther — my fate is now, at your perusal of this, accomplished.
  • No doubt it is Gelber's intention to allegorize America as a schizoid society, a sort of split-level consciousness.
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