tautegorical, a. nonce-wd.
(tɔːtɪˈgɒrɪkəl)
[f. tauto-, after allegorical.]
(See quot. 1825.) So tautegory (ˈtɔːtɪgərɪ) [after allegory].
| 1825 Coleridge Aids Refl. 199 The base of Symbols and symbolical expressions; the nature of which as always tautegorical (i.e. expressing the same subject but with a difference) in contra-distinction from metaphors and similitudes, that are always allegorical (i.e. expressing a different subject but with a resemblance). 1825 ― in Rem. (1836) II. 352 This part of the mythus in which symbol fades away into allegory but..never ceases wholly to be a symbol or tautegory. 1846 Jowett in Life & Lett. (1897) I. v. 146 In one word he [Coleridge] had comprised a whole essay, saying that mythology was not allegorical but tautegorical. 1862 Stanley Jew. Ch. (1863) I. vi. 136 The wilderness, as it intervenes between Egypt and the Land of Promise..is, as Coleridge would have said, not allegorical, but tautegorical, of the events which..we designate by those figures. |