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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

allegory XIV. — (O)F. allégorie — L. allēgoria — Gr. allēgoríā ‘speaking otherwise’, f. állos other + agor — in agoreúein speak; see -Y3.
So allegoric XIV. allegorical XVI; see -IC, -ICAL. allegorize XV. — F. allégoriser — late L. allēgorizāre.

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