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Grammar : Adj

Spell : met-uh-fawr, -fer

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɛt əˌfɔr, -fər

Definition of metaphoric

Origin : 1590s, from metaphor + -ic. Greek metaphorikos meant "apt at metaphors."

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

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