Adjective : an allegorical poem; an allegorical meaning. From Dictionary.com.
The media in this country is allegoric to actual issues. From Wordnik.com. [2007 June 21 « Lean Left] Reference
In one month more I shall begin my tree in oil colors, with its allegoric garland. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Ibsen constructed the play with any such definitely allegoric design as is here set forth. From Wordnik.com. [Little Eyolf] Reference
Yah, you better choose something more allegoric like a DNA helix or whatever catches your imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Tree Change] Reference
Shrouded in mystery, allegoric encryption, and ritual, held forth as decrees from the gods, Alchemy was born. From Wordnik.com. [How Alchemy changed the World #1] Reference
I know that ... quot; Let That Be Your Last Battlefield "was only a allegoric story, but so was Orwell's ... quot; 1984". From Wordnik.com. [Gaza: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield] Reference
On the south face are allegoric figures calling mankind to the struggle, the two women holding palm branches, the insignia of victory. From Wordnik.com. [An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition] Reference
July 4, 2006, 4: 45 am american express platinum says: american express platinum pithiest spruce Nielsen allegoric singlet incorporation. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Conference on Lochner v. New York:] Reference
There is her own portrait with three allegoric figures. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
It was of the nature chiefly of lyric and allegoric poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Song and Legend from the Middle Ages] Reference
Because he rejected the allegoric interpretation of the Old. From Wordnik.com. [History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)] Reference
Does allegoric mystery require thinking to solve it in time?. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Panaderia, a large building covered in exquisite allegoric murals. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
Neither is Juvenal; the names he employs are mere allegoric names. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2] Reference
In exalted poetry the allegoric, lyric, epic and dramatic seem to be blended. From Wordnik.com. [How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions] Reference
She was too generously alive; but she could have stood for an allegoric statue of the Earth. From Wordnik.com. [Falk] Reference
Shepherds of Arcadia, and allegoric figures from the "Faerie Queen," were oddly mixed up with these. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
Hawthorne an allegoric meaning is usually something deeper and subtler than this, and seldom so openly expressed. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
In Hawthorne an allegoric moaning is usually something deeper and subtler than this, and seldom so openly expressed. From Wordnik.com. [Initial Studies in American Letters] Reference
Hence, in reading the poem, we are impressed from the first with allegoric, lyric and epic, as well as dramatic elements. From Wordnik.com. [How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions] Reference
"And long the way appears which seemed so short;" by the Signal tree; and by the allegoric close with the reassertion of the Scholar. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold] Reference
But I must not be understood as implying that Ibsen constructed the play with any such definitely allegoric design as is here set forth. From Wordnik.com. [Little Eyolf] Reference
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