adv. Obs. [See -LY1.]

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  1.  = FIGURATIVELY 1 and 2.

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1533.  Frith, Disput. Purgat., I. Giij/1. He dare not vnderstonde this thynge as figuratelye spoken.

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a. 1677.  Barrow, Serm. (L.). Doing it then mediately and figurately by his prophets.

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  2.  According to a grammatical figure.

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1530.  Palsgr., 402. They use voult fyguratly by Syncopa for voulut.

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  3.  (To multiply) figurately = FIGURALLY 2.

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1674.  Jeake, A Compleat Body of Arithmetick (1696), 249. Let then 100 be multiplyed Figurately to the 10th Power, the Figural Number thereof will be 100000000000000000000, that is an Unit and 10 Cyphers.

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