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Homiletical vs Allegorical - What's the difference?

homiletical | allegorical |

As adjectives the difference between homiletical and allegorical

is that homiletical is of or relating to familiar intercourse; social; companionable while allegorical is of, relating to, or containing allegory.

homiletical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to familiar intercourse; social; companionable.
  • His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical , not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. — Atterbury.
  • Of or relating to homiletics; homiletic; hortatory.
  • (Webster 1913)

    allegorical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, relating to, or containing allegory
  • * Alexander Pope
  • An allegorical application.
  • * Max Miller
  • Allegorical being that kind of language which says one thing, but means another.