[f. ALLEGORIZE: cf. baptize, baptist. See -IST.] One who constructs allegories, or writes allegorically; rarely, one who expounds allegorically.
1684. T. Burnet, Theor. Earth, iii. 49. It cannot be understood … as these allegorists pretend.
1756. J. Warton, Ess. Pope (1782), II. § 8. 34. The pencil of Spenser is as powerful as that of Rubens, his brother allegorist.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1859), II. 123. Every tale is accompanied by the gloss of a pious allegorist.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., II. 228. Bunyan is … decidedly the first of allegorists.
