allegorical, a.
(ælɪˈgɒrɪkəl)
[f. prec. + -al1.]
Of or belonging to allegory; consisting of, formed by, or occurring in allegory.
| 1528 Tyndale Obed. Chr. Man Wks. I. 303 They divide the scripture into four senses, the literal, tropological, allegorical, and anagogical. 1577 T. Vautrollier tr. Luther's Ep. Gal. 217 Sina the allegorical Agar. 1657 J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 5 An Allegorical signification: as, when Peter by the Arke of Noah, signifies Baptism. 1756 Burke Subl. & B. Wks. I. 167 Its chimeras, its harpies, its allegorical figures are grand. 1829 Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 272 Quitting this idle allegorical vein. 1841 Spalding Italy II. 24 Heathen deities and allegorical personages appear in a kind of drama. |