allegoristn.
/ˈalᵻɡ(ə)rɪst/, U.S. /ˈæləɡərəst/, /ˈæləˌɡɔrəst/ 1. A person who interprets a story, picture, or other work of art as an allegory; spec. one who interprets scripture allegorically rather than literally. Cf. allegorism n. 1.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > comparison by allegory > [noun] > one who practises
allegorizer1548
allegorist1578
allegorister1841
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > allegory > allegorist or parabolist
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parabolist1651
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1578 T. Twyne tr. L. Daneau Wonderfull Woorkmanship of World iii. f. 9v The epistle to the Hebrues..doth openly impungne this errour of the Allegorists [L. Allegoristarum].
1609 Bp. W. Barlow Eagle & Body sig. D2v To follow the Allegorists in moralizing their qualities.
1690 T. Burnet Rev. Theory of Earth 49 It cannot be understood..as these allegorists pretend.
1734 D. Waterland Script. Vindicated Pref. xxii The attentive Readers may perceive how to distinguish the true and proper Allegorists from the Fable-mongers or Mythics.
1786 C. Vallancey Vindic. Anc. Hist. Ireland iv. 71 An Allegorist finds a ready clue to extricate himself out of this labyrinth.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 411 Every tale is accompanied by the gloss of a pious allegorist.
1885 Old Test. Student 5 88 The allegorist says, There is contained in every passage of Scripture, besides the usual sense, a hidden sense.
1948 A. Tate On Limits of Poetry ii. 99 Between allegorist and scientist there exists the illusion of fundamental opposition.
1982 T. A. Shippey Road to Middle-Earth vi. 165 A determined allegorist (or mythiciser) might go on to identify the Nimrodel with baptism, the Silverlode with death.
2002 J. Gass in J. Dewey et al. Underwords 127 To the allegorist a world of meaning lurks behind every individual incident and object.
2. A writer, painter, etc., of allegories.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > parable, allegory, or apologue > [noun] > writer or teller of
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1754 Monthly Rev. Aug. 120 Our critic accounts the former [sc. Ariosto] a more ingenious allegorist.
1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. viii. 96 The pencil of Spenser is as powerful as that of Rubens, his brother allegorist.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 228 Bunyan is..decidedly the first of allegorists.
1879 Sunday Afternoon July 660/1 The allegorist speaks of the corruptions of the nobility and the court.
1958 G. Bullough Narr. & Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare II. ii. 73 Shakespeare was no allegorist, nor even didactic in intention.
1998 S. N. Greenfield Ends of Allegory ii. 51 The Renaissance produces not only small-scale allegorists like Puttenham but Tasso and Spenser, who have a more comprehensive idea of the form.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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