The element that is figurativeor illustrative of truth revealed in New Testament times.
These young ladies take it as a settled matter, that all clever men who make speeches must by virtue of their cleverness be very flowery and sentimental and figurative in their language.
Solomon held this house in honour, and performed within its walls some figurative and symbolical action, which I have forgotten.
On the day of the Last Supper, Jesus raised this custom (which had hitherto been no more than a symbolical and figurative rite) to the dignity of the holiest of sacraments.
And first, let us get, as quickly as may be, at the exact meaning with which the advocates of "High Art" use that somewhat obscure and figurative term.
What are the limits between the figurative and the auditional arts, between painting and sculpture, poetry and music?
This led him to imagine that the figurative arts depend upon a principle which consists of conforming to a given line.
The creator of the history of the figurative arts saw in the divine indifference and more than human elevation of the works of Greek sculpture a beauty which had descended from the seventh heaven and become incarnate in them.
Yet this highly figurative and antithetical exuberance of language is defended by Schlegel on strong and just grounds; and to me also it appears natural, however critics may argue against its taste or propriety.
In every language, there are many common proverbs which are in the figurative style.
Another fault of thefigurative style is the accumulating of incoherent figures.
A figurative style is constituted by metaphorical expressions, figuring the things spoken of--and disfiguring them when the metaphors are not correct.
Fineness either in its proper or its figurative sense does not signify either light, slender, fine, or of a rare thin texture; this word expresses something delicate and finished.
Fineness or finesse, in a figurative sense, applies to conduct, speech, and works of mind.
The limits to be set to the figurative style, in each kind, are determined by taste.
These words have been transplanted from simple to figurative speech.
All those sentences are metaphors, or short allegories; and in them the figurative style has great effect in rousing the imagination and impressing the memory.
Nearly all the maxims of the ancient orientals and of the Greeks were in the figurative style.
Such is the report of the country people, who, in theirfigurative language, say that all nature fears the lavange; but any effect of the kind must proceed from the pressure of the air by the rapid progress of such an immense mass.
The Egyptian figurative character for the same is seen in Fig.
Neither should those passages be neglected which the Fathers have understood in an allegorical or figurative sense, more especially when such interpretation is justified by the literal sense, and when it rests on the authority of many.
It defended one of the rugged and solitary passes by which the Christians were wont to make their inroads, insomuch that the Moors, in their figurative way, denominated it the shield of Granada.
Don Gutiere perceived there was something hidden under these mystic and figurative terms, in which the Moors were often accustomed to talk.
The only sense in which living men could say that their bones were dried up, and they cut off, is a figurative one, and obviously it is the national existence which they regarded as irretrievably ended.
And so the promise of my text, in highly figurative fashion, is that of free and unrestrained approach to God, of a life that is like that of the angels that stand before His Face.
She was entirely through with Mignon and she vengefully hoped that the figurative hanging she had prophesied would soon take place.
No one delights more in the use of figurative language, nor employs metaphors that more appropriately convey the sentiment that pervades his mind.
The moral and religious opinions conveyed in this later volume may be accepted without reserve as Mr. Browning's own, if we subtract from them the exaggerations of the figurative and dramatic form.
In figurative language, we might say he becomes, not indeed a spirit, yet spiritualized, vaporized.
Not literally correct, for wisdom is certainly more to be desired than nothing; but, as a figurative expression, it is well established and unexceptionable.
The trust magnates believed that there was a figurative gulf between myself and them, and I was more than willing that this gulf should grow from the symbol to the reality.
I never stripped a man to his hide and threw him out in the cold world--as the king of this country has done to me, in a figurative sense.
The figurative terms are always predicates, or are employed in affirming something of some other agent or object; and are therefore either nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs.
Therefore the word 'Self' is applied to the subtle Sat not in a merely figurative sense.
Moreover, to assume that, because words are sometimes seen to be used in figurative senses, a figurative sense may be resorted to in the case of those things also for which words (i.
Hence the knowledge of the unity of Brahman and the Self cannot be of the nature of figurative combination and the like.
For the same reason, name and form cannot abide in the soul (as was above attempted to prove by means of the simile of the rivers), but abide in the limiting adjunct and are ascribed to the soul itself in a figurative sense only.
But what reason have you for setting aside the primary meaning of the word 'thought' and for taking it in a figurative sense?
For, in the first place, Self-hood does not belong to the vital air in any non-figurative sense.
Self and the Not-Self, is figurative (rather than simply false)?
