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Substantiivit

1. (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.
2. (countable, by extension)
3. A picture, story, or other form of communication in which one or more characters, events, or places are used to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
4. A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.
5. (mathematics, category theory) A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalization of that category.

Verbit

1. (archaic) Synonym of allegorize.
2. (transitive) To interpret (a picture, story, or other form of communication) to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
3. (transitive) To create an allegory (noun ) from (a character, an event or situation, etc.); also, to use one or more symbols to depict (a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences).
4. (transitive, chiefly religion) Followed by away: to treat (something) as allegorical or symbolic rather than as truth.
5. (intransitive) To interpret an allegory.
6. (intransitive) To create or use allegory.