[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The treatment or expounding of anything as an allegory: the using of allegories.
1579. W. Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 11. His wicked allegorizing vpon the scriptures.
1677. R. Gilpin, Dæmon. Sac. (1867), 164. Upon the occasion of Origen’s allegorizing.
1751. Jortin, Serm. (1771), I. i. 2. The Pagan Philosophers fell into the Allegorizing way.
1880. Saintsbury, in Academy, 3 Jan., 6/1. The open allegorising which simply makes use of the unfamiliar appliances to tell a familiar story.
