a. nonce-wd. [f. TAUT(O-, after ALLEGORICAL.] (See quot. 1825.) So Tautegory [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). Ibid. (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, or the events which … we designate by those figures.
