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Definition of Figuratively
1. Adverb. In a figurative sense. "Figuratively speaking,..."
Definition of Figuratively
1. Adverb. (context: manner) In a figurative manner. ¹
2. Adverb. (context: speech act) (non-gloss definition Used to indicate that what follows is to be taken as a figure of speech, not literally.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Figuratively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Figuratively
Literary usage of Figuratively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1870)
"The name of the materials, employed figuratively to signify the things made ...
The names of the heathen deities, employed figuratively to signify what they ..."
2. A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature by Alexander Jamieson (1840)
"Attributes expressed figuratively. 1. When two attributes are connected, the name
of the one may be employed figuratively, to express the other. ..."
3. A Grammar of Rhetoric, and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles by Alexander Jamieson (1838)
"The names of the Gods and Goddesses, employed figuratively, io signify what they
patronize. ///us. Jove for the air, Mars for war, Venus for beauty, ..."
4. Elements of Criticism: With Analyses, and Translation of Ancient and Foreign by Henry Home Kames, Mills, Abraham (1847)
"Subjects expressed figuratively. 1 . A word proper to one subject employed ...
Youth, for example, is signified figuratively by the morning of life. ..."
5. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"... God than those applied to of his duration and expansion,1 Locke admits that
the term ' infinite ' is applied '• figuratively ' (Book n. chap. xvii. sec. ..."
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