(Used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech.
Consisting of or forming human or animal figures.
1 Objection 1: It would seem that the ceremonial precepts are not figurative .
2 Objection 1: It would seem that the judicial precepts were not figurative .
3 In the first place, his expressions on this subject seem essentially figurative .
4 This figurative representation correctly explains the ancient Brahmanical theory on the subject.
5 Very probably, writers on yoga employ this language in a figurative sense.
6 Of course, the language of St. John about the future is figurative .
7 Inside this figurative bowl it was chill, yet the air was stirless.
8 Kent flipped a figurative coin, and gave the order for Alameda Square.
9 But these miscellaneous and figurative forces are not what we are considering.
10 A figurative expression, a striking simile, made the most difficult thoughts intelligible.
11 I hoped not, or that it was only figurative if it was.
12 O, I think that is figurative , if it is true at all.
13 This was surely some of His intensely figurative language again, they think.
14 Then he meets her in a figurative dark place at the end.
15 By a figurative , paradoxical, or interrogative form, the title may pique curiosity.
16 She pushed down her imagination, squeezing shut figurative eyes upon the image.
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