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Definition of Allegorising
1. allegorise [v] - See also: allegorise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allegorising
Literary usage of Allegorising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bible: Its Meaning and Supremacy by Frederic William Farrar (1897)
"We find that the pagans already ridiculed the allegorising of Scripture. And this '
threefold sense' was afterwards made fourfold, and every text or story ..."
2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1911)
"The parable of the Virgins tempts to allegorising almost more than any other,
yet there is not one in which it proves so impracticable. ..."
3. The History of Israel by Heinrich Ewald, Russell Martineau, Joseph Estlin Carpenter (1885)
"His allegorising of the laws was in so far of but comparatively little consequence
... More dangerous was his allegorising even of purely historical names, ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1907)
"The cases cited (by Bois) are not properly allegorising ; the pillar of salt ...
This, however, is not allegorising ; it may be called a first step toward ..."
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