The play ended allegorically. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an allegorical poem; an allegorical meaning. From Dictionary.com.
In the Edwyn Collins 'single "A Girl Like You" he uses the word "allegorically" for the first and possibly only time in the history of popular music. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine -] Reference
It was arranged to formally bury him, allegorically. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
It spoke, allegorically, of conscious and subconscious. From Wordnik.com. [Starship]
Plato's myths allegorically express philosophical truths. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Today, we still see parables teaching allegorically often. From Wordnik.com. [Parables ��� Purpose of] Reference
Or interpret it symbolically, or allegorically, as the theologians do. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
It would, in fact, inappropriate to interpret all Parables allegorically. From Wordnik.com. [Parables ��� Purpose of] Reference
You expound this passage allegorically, and interpret it to theft and larceny. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Mars, described by the most ancient of poets, expresses allegorically, this truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena Notes] Reference
And so there is no misinterpretation, I use the word "devil" allegorically here. by. From Wordnik.com. [The Extinction of Right Wing Neanderthals; The Rising of Bottom-up Intelligence] Reference
Some scholars, however, see another purpose, allegorically portrayed in his characters. From Wordnik.com. ["Over the Rainbow"] Reference
Stone of Foundation, upon which he is allegorically supposed to have erected his world. From Wordnik.com. [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference
Quranic verses must be read allegorically so as to be brought into accordance with reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Influence of Islamic Thought on Maimonides] Reference
In the pagan Mysteries, I have already said that these lessons were allegorically taught by means of a legend. From Wordnik.com. [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference
Thus, I understand the name of the serpent, not allegorically, as some foolishly do, but in its genuine sense. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
Joachim also treated the Apocalypse allegorically; but he translated it differently because of his tripartite framework. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
This scene in the Witches 'Kitchen is sometimes said to represent allegorically a long course of dissipation through which. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
Pascal believed that the Chinese were God-fearing people whose reli - gious beliefs could be understood only allegorically. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Wherefore, many explain this whole passage allegorically, and plausible are the subtleties which they adduce for this purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
Some persons will have this two-fold servitude to have been allegorically typified by the Egyptian and Babylonian captivities. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
A poetic idea cannot be expressed allegorically; allegory is the ebb-tide at once of the intellect and of the productive power. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
Now the toil for self advancement and self perfection is one that belongs to the work ethic, allegorically spoofed in this book. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Work Ethic] Reference
Bunyan spoke, not altogether allegorically, but rather literally, of the foul "den" in which he passed a good twelve years of his life. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Fry] Reference
I exchanged a few remarks with her regarding the beauty of the day, and thus allegorically referred to the beauty of herself — a charming flight of fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Midas] Reference
Furthermore, they confirmed a literal interpretation of Biblical descriptions such as the "four corners of the earth" (which most everyone else took allegorically). From Wordnik.com. [Matt J. Rossano: How the Myth of the Flat-Earth Dogma Started the Religion-Science War] Reference
Whereby it is clearly, though allegorically, signified that the commands of them that have the right to command are not by their subjects to be censured nor disputed. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan] Reference
As for allegorically representing essential questions of our times, more and more I respect the first three Star Wars episodes for showing what happens when a republic crumbles. From Wordnik.com. [Is Serious Sci-Fi Dying?] Reference
Most authors, however, interpret the instruments mentioned in Psalms allegorically or emblematically by giving them a different meaning (see article “Music as a Divine Art”). From Wordnik.com. [MUSIC AS A DEMONIC ART] Reference
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