adv. Obs. [f. prec. + -LY2.]

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  1.  By way of a figure, figuratively.

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c. 1380.  Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. II. 6. Joon is not Hely personali, as Joon him silf confessiþ; but is Hely figurali.

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c. 1450.  Mirour Saluacioun, 77. This fortakened a virginis ymage with hir childe figurelly.

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1541.  Coverdale, Old Faith, vi. He came and performed all things in deed that they had figurally in their sacrifices.

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1550.  Hutchinson, Image of God, iii. (1842), 23. Who cloth not see that these things are to be taken figurally of God?

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  2.  See FIGURAL 2. To multiply figurally: to multiply into itself, so as to raise to a higher power.

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1674.  Jeake, A Compleat Body of Arithmetick (1696), 206. When a Fraction is given to be multiplyed Figurally, Multiply the Numerator by himself into the Quantity desired, and the Denominator likewise.

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