† metaphorallyadv.
Obsolete. rare.
= metaphorically adv.
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figurately?1531
metaphorally1548
tropically1556
metaphorically1571
analogically1610
allusively1615
figuratively1651
tropologetically1652
tralatitiously1657
tropologically1678
ideologically1861
1548–50 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. Chimera, a proper name, but metaphorollie, it is many times taken for an harde or subtill imaginacion.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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adv.1548