allegorize

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: al=le=go=rize

CIDE DICTIONARY

allegorize, v. t. [Cf. F. allégoriser, fr. L. allegorizare.].

•  To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

allegorize, v. t. 

 To use allegory.  Holland.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

allegorize, v.tr. (also -ise) treat as or by means of an allegory.

Derivative

allegorization n.

THESAURUS

allegorize

account for, allude to, assume, bring to mind, clarify, clear up, connote, crack, decipher, demonstrate, demythologize, elucidate, enlighten, entail, euhemerize, exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, fable, fabulize, fictionalize, give reason for, give the meaning, hint, illuminate, illustrate, implicate, imply, import, infer, insinuate, intimate, involve, make clear, make plain, mean, mean to say, mythicize, mythify, mythologize, narrate, novelize, point indirectly to, popularize, presume, presuppose, rationalize, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, retell, romance, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, solve, spell out, storify, suggest, suppose, take for granted, tell, tell a story, throw light upon, unfold, unfold a tale, unlock, unravel

ROGET THESAURUS

allegorize

Metaphor

VB employ a metaphor, personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply, allude to.