allusory

comparative more allusory · superlative most allusory

1. allusive; making allusion

   But those Sects, who oppose the doctrine of a real redemption, have always striven to evade the notion of a real sacrifice; as that on which the doctrine of Redemption is founded; upon pretence, that the scripture expressions of Christ's sacrifice were only figurative and allusory.

   1761, William Warburton, A rational account of the nature and end of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper