Very probably, writers on yoga employ this language in a figurative sense.

My northern friend was using the word in a figurative sense.

There is no need to lose our heads-inthe figurative sense at least.

I use the word 'founded' in a literal as well as figurative sense.

No, not in the usual figurative sense of that term.

To "blow-up" effectively, whether in a literal or figurative sense, is difficult.

He has come home, not in the figurative sense, but in the quite literal sense.

The adjective "pure" must be understood in the figurative sense of the mantram.

In a figurative sense he'd gone the extra mile.

Through our thought-forces we have creative power, not in a figurative sense, but in reality.

Take your Johnson, and look out the adjective Scurvy, in its higher or figurative sense.

Is this "woman Jezebel" to be taken in a literal or figurative sense?

Dalzell had used the word "gig" in a figurative sense.

Death is frequently used in a figurative sense to denote misery, and life to signify happiness.

We must, therefore, necessarily endeavour after some figurative sense, not liable to so insuperable an objection.

This word is now used much oftener in a figurative sense than to describe the actual thing.