Crossword-Solution: ALLEGORIZE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Allegorize | v. t. | To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. |
| Allegorize | v. t. | To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it. |
| Allegorize | v. t. | To use allegory. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “ALLEGORIZE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Show by storytelling | 1 answer |
| make into an allegory | 1 answer |
| to make an allegory of | 1 answer |
| Portray | 65 answers |
| Adumbrate | 73 answers |
| Paint | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
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greedy person
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Sentences with ALLEGORIZE (5)
And there is a kind of sacredness attached to the memory of the great and the good, which seems to bid us repulse the scepticism which would allegorize their existence into a pleasing apologue, and measure the giants of intellect by an homaeopathic dynameter.
And since Christians count it an abuse to allegorize the first, let them also be ashamed to fantasticalize the last.
But to allegorize the word, for by the word, ungodly men are beasts; then, as I said before, godliness puts such a majesty and dread upon the professors of it, that their enemies are afraid of them; yea, even then when they rage against them, and lay heavy afflictions upon them.
But if you allegorize it and interpret it thus, They are such as beg earnestly for heavenly food; this is also the spirit of the children of God, and it may be, and is a truth in this sense, though not so naturally gathered from this scripture.
And, had _that_ been so, the practical precepts, and the moral commentary coming after even the grossest forms of worship, or the most revolting mythological legends, might have operated to neutralize their horrors, or even to allegorize them into better meanings.
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1999).