allegorical

Many references to mounted soldiers are made by the prophets, sometimes allegorically, sometimes metaphorically.

It is a triple altar-piece, allegorically representing the death of the patron of the College of St. Thomas.

There was another figure with finely-cut clothes certainly; but allegorically, I suppose, it had no head.

In Mary and the Bramble he has taken an intellectual idea and treated it allegorically, and essentially poetically.