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illiteral en · ADJ

Etymology

From il- + literal.

Meanings

1. Not literal.
   • […] did from erroneous conceptions speak false, slanderous and illiteral things of JACOB TORIAN tending to implicate him in some degree with certain horse-thieves by representing him as being favourably disposed towards them […] 1990, Genealogical Committee of the Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky Ancestors, volume 25, part 3
   • Descending under the earth, is a translation most of all unexact and illiteral. 1765, Benjamin Dawson, An Illustration of several Texts of Scripture, particularly those in which the Logos occurs:

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Deriveds

illiterally