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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
allegorise .
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Examples
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The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic; it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away.
Archive 2008-12-01 Burke's Corner 2008
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The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic; it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away.
Merry Christmas from Burke's Corner Burke's Corner 2008
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Mackenzie to his feet, or into the forefront of battle, -- being a simple allusion to the Mackenzie crest, allegorised into an emblem of the stag at bay, or ready in his ire to push at his assailant.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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This is the only certain, and this is the universal, preventive of all debasing superstitions; this is the true haemony ([Greek: haima], blood, [Greek: oinos], wine), which our Milton has beautifully allegorised in a passage strangely overlooked by all his commentators.
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Ovid allegorised contained profound truths; his Art of Love, so treated, was not unfit for nuns.
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911
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Jews of the Diaspora allegorised the ceremonial Law, and that this paved the way for the Gentile church's freedom from the Law.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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Pan-Germanism may be allegorised and abbreviated somewhat thus:
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Gentile Christian regions, revised from new points of view, handed down in very diverse forms, and systematically allegorised by individual teachers.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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However, the distinction always remained, that in the confrontation of the two Testaments with the views of getting proofs from prophecy, the history of Jesus described in the Gospels was not at first allegorised.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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In consequence of this view, all facts and sayings of the Old Testament in which one could not find his way, were allegorised.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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