adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an allegoric or allegorical manner; by way of, or by means of, allegory; figuratively.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 330. Some … thinke it very profitable and an excellent thing to construe Homer and Virgil allegorically.
1641. Brathwait, Engl. Gentl., 102. In many places are wee allegorically and not literally to cleave to the Text.
1774. T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, Dissert. III. (1840), I. 200. Writers who affect to interpret allegorically.
1859. Masson, Milton, I. 542. An acted pageant, with speeches, &c. by persons allegorically dressed.
