Sentence example with the word 'allegorize'

allegorize

Definition v. interpret as an allegory

Last update: November 1, 2015

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Of the many paradoxes in the Divine Legation, few are more extravagant than the theory that Virgil, in the sixth book of his Aeneid, intended to allegorize, in the visit of his hero and the Sibyl to the shades, the initiation of Aeneas, as a lawgiver, into the Eleusinian mysteries.   [Please select]

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Liberty, with them, was an object of too serious desire and stern resolve to be personified, allegorized, and enshrined.   [Please select]

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