Definition of "allegorically" []

• In an allegorical manner (adverb)

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• "This horrible hole whence there was no escape -- where men were thrust to die by inches as all of these had died before him -- the repulsive and blood-sucking insect was in truth a fitting name allegorically for such a place, which swallowed up the lives of men."
• "In the Edwyn Collins 'single "A Girl Like You" he uses the word "allegorically" for the first and possibly only time in the history of popular music."
• "1 Peter 1:11, that everything, in the Old Testament, is said "allegorically," that is, in reference to the Church cf."