illiteral

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From il- +‎ literal.

Adjective[edit]

illiteral (comparative more illiteral, superlative most illiteral)

  1. Not literal.
    • 1765, Benjamin Dawson, An Illustration of several Texts of Scripture, particularly those in which the Logos occurs:
      Descending under the earth, is a translation most of all unexact and illiteral.
    • 1990, Genealogical Committee of the Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky Ancestors, volume 25, part 3
      [] 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 []

References[edit]

illiteral”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.