anagogy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AN'AGOGY, noun [Gr. upward, and a leading.] An elevation of mind to things celestial; the spiritual meaning or application of words; also the application of the types and allegories of the old testament to subjects of the new.
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