unfigurativeadj.
(un- prefix1 1.)
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unfigured1577
unmetaphorical1641
unrhetorical1680
literal1690
unfigurative1780
uncaricatured1880
non-metaphorical1941
1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) x. §4 The sense it bears on these occasions may be styled its literal or unfigurative sense.
1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xxi. 287 St. Peter's unfigurative Epistle.
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adj.1780- to get with the programme
- to get within
- to get wood
- to get work up a head of steam
- to get wrong
- to get yours
- to get, , lose flesh
- to get, come, etc, unstuck
- to get, get oneself in, lose flesh
- to get, give, have fair law
- to get, give, have fair law of
- to get, give, have law
- to get, give, have law of
- to get, give, have, obtain, take a licence
- to get, give, have, obtain, take licence
- to get, have or give a skrik
- to get, have or give someone a skrik
- to get, have, meet with one's deserts
- to get, have, or take a cold
- to get, have, or take a right sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take a wrong sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take the right sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take the wrong sow by the ear
- to get, have, possess the dead-wood
- to get, have, possess the deadwood