† figuratelyadv.
Obsolete.
1. = figuratively adv. 1, 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adverb] > metaphorically or figuratively
figurately?1531
metaphorally1548
tropically1556
metaphorically1571
analogically1610
allusively1615
figuratively1651
tropologetically1652
tralatitiously1657
tropologically1678
ideologically1861
society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [adverb]
figuratively1393
symbolically1603
emblematically1607
hieroglyphicallya1640
symbolicly1669
figuratelya1677
imagerially1879
iconically1946
?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. fv He dare not vnderstonde this thinge as fyguratelie spoken.
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 370 Doing it then mediately and figurately by his Prophets.
2. According to a grammatical figure.
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 402 They use voult fyguratly by Syncopa for voulut.
3. (to multiply) figurately = figurally adv. 2.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > multiply > by itself or raise to a particular power
quaderc1450
to multiply quadrantlya1552
square?a1560
cube1588
quadrate1613
square-square1670
involve1673
to raise to a power1675
cubify1676
figuratea1690
(to multiply) figuratelya1690
biquadrate1694
a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 249 Let then 100 be multiplyed Figurately to the 10th Power.
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adv.1530