metaphorical

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Metaphorical punches were being swung both left and right within PEN, and in the pages of the New York Times and Washington Post.

From BBC • May 8, 2015

Metaphorical phrases were common, such as war-adder for arrow, war-shirts for armour, whale’s-path or swan-road for the sea, wave-horse for a ship, tree-wright for carpenter.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

Others may in a Metaphorical or Philosophick Sense be said to command themselves, but this Emperor is also literally under his own Command.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Metaphorical writers are fond of saying that the successful ride to success on the back of the failures.

From Prose Fancies (Second Series) by Le Gallienne, Richard

The measure of Mr. Asquith's shame does not consist in the mere fact that he has announced his intention to … Metaphorical measuring, like literal, requires a more accommodating instrument than a stubborn fact.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 11 Three Articles on Metaphor by Society for Pure English