allegorie (s.xii1/3)

allegorie (s.xii1/3)

  FEW:  allegoria 24,329a Gdf: GdfC:  allegorie 8,81c TL: allegorie 1,307 DEAF:  allegorie  DMF:  allégorie  TLF:  allégorie  OED:  allegory n.  MED:  allegorie n.  DMLBS:  allegoria 65b
 

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1literatureallegory, symbolic representation (with a view to a spiritual interpretation)
( s.xii1/3; MS: c.1200 )  Kar ço ert tut allegorie De Jhesu Crist le fiz Marie  259.1701
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  (Aquarius) Est allegorie, Car le eve signefie Saint Espirit  1799
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  De cez respiz voil desclarier L’allegorie e le mestier  7054
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  E si vus plest que jeo en die Le sens de lur allegorie  11346
2fiction, untruth
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Kar chescun de eus asez diseit […] De fables et allegories  11583
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allegorie