That the whole of these expressions require to be taken figuratively and spiritually, no one conversant with scriptural and prophetic language can surely deny; or for a moment suppose that literal drunkenness and bloodshed are here intended.
Blayney proposes to render it, the Eastern and the Western Sea, may literally signify the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean; but figuratively the Eastern and Western Gentiles, who will receive the benefit of the spiritual waters.
Their consequent success in preaching the gospel is next declared; the nations being destroyed, figuratively signifies their false religion being overthrown.
It was distinctly the huzca, or sacred fetish of the Incas, and they were figuratively said to have descended from it.
This fact was figuratively represented by a cruciform figure, the ends directed toward each of these.
He heard of the bold doings of his friends Harkaway, Harvey and Jefferson, not to speak of the valuable aid of Nabley the detective, and, figuratively speaking, his very soul panted for glory.
The exclusion of the lepers from the camp, from the holy city, conveyed figuratively quite the same lesson, as is done in Words by John, in Revel.
According to the opinion of several interpreters, by diseases, all inward and outward sufferings are figuratively designated; according to the opinion of others, spiritual diseases, sins.
Skidding recklessly down hill is, figuratively speaking, the metier of so many of the throng that haunts the Casino and fills the great hotels.
Ernest is another of the men of the new school; but Armand is, figuratively speaking, the baby of the group.
The great sanctuary of Sippar is here employed figuratively for the temples of Babylonia in general.
The word 'house' in Semitic parlance is figuratively extended to convey the idea of 'possessing or harboring.
Origen speaks of our Lord as “he who isfiguratively called the fish.
They call the Holy Spirit figuratively “a dove without gall,” the expression which is found repeated on some of the sepulchres of children, as indicative of their innocence.
Time's chest: in which he is figuratively supposed to lay up past treasures.
It is clear that in such animals as insects we can only speak figuratively of normal death, if we mean by this an end which is not due to accident.
A noun used figuratively often suggests two different senses, the one literal, and the other tropical; and the agreement of the pronoun must be sometimes with this, and sometimes with that, according to the nature of the trope.
As to the words mouth and heart, they are to be understood figuratively of speech and love; and I agree not with Priestley, that the plural number must necessarily be used.
In these instances, the objects addressed do not appear to be figuratively invested with the attribute of sex.
Noun, why may not be put in the relation of two cases at once --taken figuratively sing.
Figuratively speaking, it tasted of dust and ashes; literally, it tasted of nothing at all, and the tea was just a hot fluid which had to be swallowed at intervals, as medicine is swallowed of necessity.
Twenty-four hours later she represented our ideal of female charm, and we figuratively wept and rent our garments because she exhibited no interest in our charming selves.
The Corsican is figuratively and literally sitting on thorns; the sun of Spain and Portugal is arising on the meridian with threatening import.
Before the Doctor--over whose head shines the glorious midday sun, figuratively set forth--is extended the buckler of Religion held by the stalwart arm of the Marsh Clergy of Monarchists.
The gate looking toward the south will look figuratively toward restitution.
Why are they figurativelyrepresented as stained with blood?
Sharpe was blackballed at the Idlers' Club with cheerful unanimity, and Bobby figuratively squared his shoulders to receive the blow that he was convinced must certainly fall.
While Wilkins took his hat and coat Bobby paused for a moment figuratively to hug himself.
Used figuratively to denote superiority of any kind over others.
Properly a contributor to the Figaro newspaper, and figuratively term of contempt applied to unscrupulous journalists.
So, too, those who held that Christ's body and soul were not united, could not say that God is true man, but that He is figuratively called man by reason of the parts.
Two small kinds of parrot inhabit the fig and tamarind trees of the lower country: their name, Donkoro, is also used figuratively of persons talking nonsense.
We're going to take our coats off, figuratively speaking, you understand, and purify the atmosphere around the place we live in.
That which is his chosen instrument cannot be sincerely regarded as his everlasting enemy; and only figuratively can he be said to repudiate a power which he continually wields.
Then all at once darkness changed to light, figuratively speaking.
On the way out Betty had a chance to point out, figuratively speaking, both Freddy Fisher and the "Don" of football fame, and she almost ran into Ted Dorrance in the hall.
The different uses, figuratively speaking, bid for an agent, and thus its marginal utility is determined just as is the price of a good by the bidding of buyers.
Figuratively speaking, products compete with each other for the factors that enter into them.
For every man who with set jaw climbs the top to sink his teeth, figuratively or actually, in the embodied enemy, there are a dozen who toil and moil far back behind in manual labours of the most exacting and exhausting forms imaginable.
As I write these lines I figuratively pat myself on the back at the thought of having seen what I never expected to see when I landed on French soil less than a month ago.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "figuratively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
