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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Devotion; loyalty; <as>as, <ex>allegiance</ex> to science</as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Loyalty; fealty.</syn> -- <usage><er>Allegiance</er>, <er>Loyalty</er>. These words agree in expressing the general idea of fidelity and attachment to the "powers that be." <i>Allegiance</i> is an obligation to a ruling power. <i>Loyalty</i> is a feeling or sentiment towards such power. <i>Allegiance</i> may exist under any form of government, and, in a republic, we generally speak of <i>allegiance</i> to the government, to the state, etc. In well conducted monarchies, <i>loyalty</i> is a warm-hearted feeling of fidelity and obedience to the sovereign. It is personal in its nature; and hence we speak of the <i>loyalty</i> of a wife to her husband, not of her <i>allegiance</i>. In cases where we personify, <i>loyalty</i> is more commonly the word used; <as>as, <ex>loyalty</ex> to the constitution; <ex>loyalty</ex> to the cause of virtue; <ex>loyalty</xxex> to truth and religion, etc.</as></usage>

<blockquote>Hear me, recreant, on thine <b>allegiance</b> hear me! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found, . . . Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His <b>loyalty</b> he kept, his love, his zeal. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Allegiant</h1> <Xpage=40>

<hw>Al*le"giant</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Loyal.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Allegoric, Allegorical</h1> <Xpage=40>

<hw><hw>Al`le*gor"ic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>Al`le*gor"ic*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>all\'82gorique</ets>, L. <ets>allegorius</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/. See <er>Allegory</er>.]</ety> <def>Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative.</def> "An <i>allegoric</i> tale." <i>Falconer</i>. "An <i>allegorical</i> application." <i>Pope</i>.

<blockquote><b>Allegorical</b> being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. <i>Max Miller.</i></blockquote>

<wordforms><wf>Al`le*gor"ic*al*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Al`le*gor"ic*al*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Allegorist</h1> <Xpage=40>

<hw>Al"le*go*rist</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>allegoriste</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory.</def>

<i>Hume.</i>

<h1>Allegorization</h1> <Xpage=40>

<hw>Al`le*gor"i*za"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.</def>

<h1>Allegorize</h1> <Xpage=40>

<hw>Al"le*go*rize</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Allegorized</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Allegorizing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>all\'82goriser</ets>, fr. L. <ets>allegorizare</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To form or turn into allegory; <as>as, to <ex>allegorize</ex> the history of a people</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; <as>as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to <ex>allegorize</ex> it</as>.</def>

<h1>Allegorize</h1> <Xpage=40>

<hw>Al"le*go*rize</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To use allegory.</def>

<i>Holland.</i>

<h1>Allegorizer</h1> <Xpage=40>

<hw>Al"le*go*ri`zer</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.</def>

<h1>Allegory</h1> <Xpage=40>

<hw>Al"le*go*ry</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Allegories</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>allegoria</ets>, Gr. <?/, description of one thing under the image of another; <?/ other + <?/ to speak in the assembly, harangue, <?/ place of assembly, fr. <?/ to assemble: cf. F. <ets>all\'82gorie</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Paint. & Sculpt.)</fld> <def>A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.</def>