ALLEGORIZE

vt to use allegory.

2. allegorize ·vt to form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

3. allegorize ·vt to treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.