Adjective

(en adjective)

Pertaining to a symbol.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}

Referring to something with an implicit meaning.

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.