To interpret something as an allegory, or to write or present something in the form of an allegory with hidden symbolic meanings.
From Greek 'allegoria' via French 'allégorie', with the suffix '-ize' meaning 'to make' or 'to treat as'. First used in English in the 1500s as a literary technique.
When you allegorize something, you're basically playing a literary detective game—taking mundane details and insisting they mean something deeper. Dante did this with his entire Divine Comedy, making every character and number carry symbolic weight!
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