Ăl'le-go-rīze1, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. ALLEGORIZED; p. pr. & vb. n. ALLEGORIZING.] [Lat. allegorizare, Fr. allégoriser.]
Sense 1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. Campbell.
Sense 2. To understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may be understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.