{ } a. [ F. allégorique, L. allegorius, fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Allegory. ] Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. “An allegoric tale.” Falconer. “An allegorical application.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Al`le*gor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor"ic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. allegoriste. ] One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Allegorized p. pr. & vb. n. Allegorizing. ] [ Cf. F. allégoriser, fr. L. allegorizare. ] 1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To use allegory. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Allegories [ L. allegoria, Gr. &unr_;, description of one thing under the image of another; &unr_; other + &unr_; to speak in the assembly, harangue, &unr_; place of assembly, fr. &unr_; to assemble: cf. F. allégorie. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Paint. & Sculpt.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Metaphor; fable. -- Allegory, Parable. “An allegory differs both from fable and parable, in that the properties of persons are fictitiously represented as attached to things, to which they are as it were transferred. . . . A figure of Peace and Victory crowning some historical personage is an allegory. “I am the Vine, ye are the branches” [ John xv. 1-6 ] is a spoken allegory. In the parable there is no transference of properties. The parable of the sower [ Matt. xiii. 3-23 ] represents all things as according to their proper nature. In the allegory quoted above the properties of the vine and the relation of the branches are transferred to the person of Christ and His apostles and disciples.” C. J. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

An allegory is a prolonged metaphor. Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress” and Spenser's “Faërie Queene” are celebrated examples of the allegory. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To besmear with gore. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; predicate. See Category. ] (Logic.) Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a category. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. A. Marvell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. placed in a category. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Categories [ L. categoria, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to accuse, affirm, predicate; &unr_; down, against + &unr_; to harrangue, assert, fr. &unr_; assembly. ] 1. (Logic.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. [ 1913 Webster ]

The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. Gregorianus, fr. Gregorius Gregory, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. grégorien. ] Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gregorian calendar, the calendar as reformed by Pope Gregory XIII. in 1582, including the method of adjusting the leap years so as to harmonize the civil year with the solar, and also the regulation of the time of Easter and the movable feasts by means of epochs. See Gregorian year (below). --
Gregorian chant (Mus.), plain song, or canto fermo, a kind of unisonous music, according to the eight celebrated church modes, as arranged and prescribed by Pope Gregory I. (called “the Great”) in the 6th century. --
Gregorian modes, the musical scales ordained by Pope Gregory the Great, and named after the ancient Greek scales, as Dorian, Lydian, etc. --
Gregorian telescope (Opt.), a form of reflecting telescope, named from Prof. James Gregory, of Edinburgh, who perfected it in 1663. A small concave mirror in the axis of this telescope, having its focus coincident with that of the large reflector, transmits the light received from the latter back through a hole in its center to the eyepiece placed behind it. --
Gregorian year, the year as now reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar. Thus, every year, of the current reckoning, which is divisible by 4, except those divisible by 100 and not by 400, has 366 days; all other years have 365 days. See Bissextile, and Note under Style, n., 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. Pope Gregory XIII., born 1572, died 1585, the pope who introduced the modern calendar.
Syn. -- Gregory XIII, Ugo Buoncompagni. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Pope Gregory I., born circa 540, died 604; the pope for whom Gregorian chants were named.
Syn. -- Gregory I, Saint Gregory I, Gregory the Great. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Homo- + categoric. ] (Biol.) Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. paregoricus, Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; addressing, encouraging, soothing; para` beside + &unr_; an assembly: cf. F. parégorique. See Allegory. ] Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. regorder; re- + gorger to gorge. Cf. Regurgitate. ] 1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To swallow again; to swallow back. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; sy`n with + &unr_; a predicate. See Syn-, and Categorematic. ] (Logic) Not capable of being used as a term by itself; -- said of words, as an adverb or preposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, for &unr_; &unr_; the same + &unr_; to speak. Cf. Allegory. ] Expressing the same thing with different words; -- opposed to allegorical. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]