FIG'URATIVELY, adverb By a figure; in a manner to exhibit ideas by resemblance; in a sense different from that which words originally imply. Words are used figuratively when they express something different from their usual meaning.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.