a. [f. prec. + -AL 1.] 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. Vautroullier, trans. 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.
