Allegorize

Al·le·go·rize

Allegorize

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Allegorized; p. pr. & vb. n. Allegorizing

  1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
  2. 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.
  1. To use allegory.