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Definition of Metaphorical
1. Adjective. Expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another. "Metaphoric language"
Definition of Metaphorical
1. Adjective. Pertaining to or characterized by a metaphor; figurative; symbolic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Metaphorical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metaphorical
Literary usage of Metaphorical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Indian (Uh-nish-in-na-ba) by Elijah Middlebrook Haines (1888)
"metaphorical expressions and powerful similes, drawn from nature, ... The following
metaphorical expressions, many of which are derived from the writings of ..."
2. The Theological and Literary Journal (1861)
"But the prediction is not metaphorical. There is nothing incompatible with Christ's
nature ... To treat that which is predicated of Christ, as metaphorical, ..."
3. Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human by Arthur James Johnes (1846)
"SECTION I. First Source of Synonymes the metaphorical Character of Human ...
Even modern Languages metaphorical or descriptive, as regards the Names of ..."
4. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Frank Hesketh Peters (1881)
"... and in what sense it metaphorical is possible to act incontinently with knowledge.
We next have to consider whether a man can be incontinent simply, ..."
5. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"NO. xxix. forward the former. Either the river wants liberty The Bi.hop* for
both, or else it wants liberty for neither. But to leave his metaphorical ..."
6. Lectures on jurisprudence or the philosophy of positive law by John Austin (1885)
"... secondly, those improper laws which are remotely analogous to the proper, and
which I style, therefore, laws metaphorical or figurative. ..."
7. A Manual of Composition and Rhetoric: A Text-book for Schools and Colleges by John Seely Hart (1891)
"The metaphorical and the literal should not be mixed in the same sentence.
Rale Explained. -A metaphor having been introduced into a sentence, ..."
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