[f. prec. + -ER1.] One who allegorizes: a. who expounds allegorically; b. who speaks in allegories.
1677. R. Gilpin, Dæmon. Sac. (1867), 165. The allegorizers and inventors of mysteries … are ravished with the discovery of a new nothing.
1736. H. Coventry, Philem. to Hyd. (ed. 4), v. 350 (T.). The Stoic philosophers, as we learn from Cicero, were great allegorizers in their theology.
1824. Coleridge, Aids to Refl. (1848), I. 254. The fond humour of the mystic divines, and allegorizers of Holy Writ.
