figurately
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Figuratively, in a figurative manner.
Example Sentences
- "It is as when we seek for the signification of any particular word in a language; we may find that it bears many different meanings, and some which seem to be contradictory to each other; yet upon further search we may perhaps discover that there is a common idea, which is the source of them all, and that they differ only because the word is taken in one sense literally, in another figurately, and in a third with some special application."
- "He stood in the centre of that great pile, figurately speaking, the cynosure of all eyes from Maine to California, and his fame was noised abroad in Europe."
- "As was observed before in Figuration of Surds; so here it may be remembred that any Species simply Irrational, multiplied figurately, produceth a Rational: But Compound Irrational Species may be squared, cubed, etc. by multiplying them figurately as other Figural Numbers are multiplied; but the Unciae to the Parodical Degrees here, will be the Squares of them in Rational Species."
- "In the regulations for Trnava school, which Nicolaus Olahus issued in 1554, we find "The sublector should support a school succentor, who would teach the boys to sing figurately, as well as Gregorian chant.""
Etymology
Etymology tree English figurate Middle English -ly English -ly English figurately From figurate + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more figurately (comparative)
most figurately (superlative)