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Definition of the day : « metaphoric »

  • As in metaphorical : adj figurative
  • As in figurative : adj not literal, but symbolic
  • As in illustrative : adj explanatory
Example sentences :
  • Susie Bateman snorted like the metaphoric warhorse, for she scented battle.
  • Extract from : « John Ames, Native Commissioner » by Bertram Mitford
  • With all the wealth of his prolix, poetic, metaphoric tongue, the Polish author gives them abundant consideration.
  • Extract from : « The North American Slime-Moulds » by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
  • The metaphoric 'infancy' of which Guarini speaks is the pre-dramatic period of pastoral growth.
  • Extract from : « Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama » by Walter W. Greg
  • The rocks are metaphoric quartzites, and the river-bed is crossed by a belt of granite.
  • Extract from : « Golden Alaska » by Ernest Ingersoll
  • After thousands of years the lines of metaphoric advance are still shown, and in many cases actually retained in the meaning.
  • Extract from : « Instigations » by Ezra Pound
  • Ewald takes these for metaphoric designations of the Hellenising Jews.
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel » by F. W. Farrar
  • Another secondary meaning is "to re-vive or to re-kindle" in its metaphoric sense.
  • Extract from : « Notes & Queries, No. 18. Saturday, March 2, 1850 » by Various
  • In truth, the charms of this magnificent maiden were worthy of metaphoric phrase.
  • Extract from : « The Wild Huntress » by Mayne Reid
  • This and other apocryphal stories illustrate the evolution of Haggadoth out of metaphoric allusions.
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel » by F. W. Farrar
  • I should say to the ordinary bookbuyer, in metaphoric language, Avoid the kickshaws and stick to the solids!
  • Extract from : « By-ways in Book-land » by William Davenport Adams