allegory

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “In theſe teſtimonies vvhich they alledge of the ſcripture there are certayne, vvhiche are vvell nere of no vvayghte, but there is none of them, but eyther it is darke vvith the myſte of allegorie: or els it dothe receyue dyuerſe and manifolde interpretations.”

2. isim 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.

   “[T]houghe ſome woordes ſpoken by the mouthe of Chriſt written in ſcripture, be to be vnderſtanden only by way of a ſimilitude or an allegory: it foloweth not therupõ [thereupon] that of neceſſitye euerye like woorde of Chriſt in other places was none other but an allegory.”

3. isim A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.

   “[T]he Harp of Ireland, puts me in mind, of that Glorious Embleme, or Allegory, vvherein the vviſdome of Antiquity, did figure, and ſhadovv out, vvorks of this Nature.”

4. isim A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalization of that category.
5. fiil To interpret (a picture, story, or other form of communication) to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
6. fiil To create an allegory (noun sense 2.1) 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).
7. fiil Followed by away: to treat (something) as allegorical or symbolic rather than as truth.
8. fiil To interpret an allegory.
9. fiil To create or use allegory.