Definition of Allegorical

Allegorical

Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative.

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Allegorical Quotations

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
William Robertson Smith

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
Frederick Soddy

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
Barbet Schroeder

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Allegorical Translations

allegorical in German is allegorische
allegorical in Swedish is allegorisk

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