Definition of literally

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Literally (adv.) According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh..

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Metaphrased :: Metaphrased (a.) Translated literally.
Germane :: Germane (a.) Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant..
Up :: Up (adv.) In a higher place or position, literally or figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an upright, or nearly upright, position; standing; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up..
Allegorize :: Allegorize (v. t.) To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it..
Upper :: Upper (comp.) Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature..
Teocalli :: Teocalli (n.) Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc..
Forisfamiliate :: Forisfamiliate (v. t.) Literally, to put out of a family; hence, to portion off, so as to exclude further claim of inheritance; to emancipate (as a with his own consent) from paternal authority..
File :: File (n.) Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively..
Blindness :: Blindness (n.) State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively..
Volapuk :: Volapuk (n.) Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland, about 1879..
Illuminate :: Illuminate (v. t.) To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten..
Per- :: Per- () A prefix used to signify through, throughout, by, for, or as an intensive as perhaps, by hap or chance; perennial, that lasts throughout the year; perforce, through or by force; perfoliate, perforate; perspicuous, evident throughout or very evident; perplex, literally, to entangle very much..
Elementally :: Elementally (adv.) According to elements; literally; as, the words, Take, eat; this is my body, elementally understood..
Philosophy :: Philosophy (n.) Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws..
Bedung :: Bedung (v. t.) To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively..
Literally :: Literally (adv.) With close adherence to words; word by word.
Effusion :: Effusion (n.) That which is poured out, literally or figuratively..
Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something..
Lean :: Lean (v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages..
Equivocal :: Equivocal (a.) (Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double interpretation; of doubtful meaning; ambiguous; uncertain; as, equivocal words; an equivocal sentence..
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