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Blindness :: Blindness (n.) State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively..

Paraphrastical :: Paraphrastical (a.) Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free..

Application :: Application (n.) The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb..

Quadriliteral :: Quadriliteral (a.) Consisting of four letters.

Tropist :: Tropist (n.) One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech..

Beseem :: Beseem (v. t.) Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit..

Bottom :: Bottom (n.) That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork..

Sharp-sighted :: Sharp-sighted (a.) Having quick or acute sight; -- used literally and figuratively.

File :: File (n.) Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively..

Accident :: Accident (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident..

Literal :: Literal (a.) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters..

Literally :: 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..

Metaphorical :: Metaphorical (a.) Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense..

Excellently :: Excellently (adv.) In a high or superior degree; -- in this literal use, not implying worthiness..

Figured :: Figured (a.) Not literal; figurative.

Mortgage :: Mortgage (v. t.) Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation..

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..

Brillancy :: Brillancy (n.) The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brightness, whether in a literal or figurative sense..

Literal :: Literal (n.) Literal meaning.

Literalize :: Literalize (v. t.) To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture..

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