figurative

vertauskuvallinen

kuvaannollinen metaphorical Metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs".
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Metaphorically so called
With many figures of speech
emblematic Emblematic; representative
Hooker

This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.

They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.