Figuratively

After the botched gallbladder surgery, the patient was filled with bile, both figuratively and literally.

I like Lojban because I think in a figuratively Lojbanic manner.

This is literally and figuratively out of this world.

If you try to speak figuratively to the J-14 robots, they will sting you with a small barbed projectile, but the newer J-37 will randomly kill uncooperative humans.

Figuratively speaking, of course.

On the French-language network TV5, I have encountered the phrase Les Trente Continents, The Thirty Continents. Some elite French believe in the gradual colonization of various moons and planets, what are figuratively called The Thirty Continents. They expect to live in luxury in outer space and those worlds.

While this year's famous Tokyo Motor Show will feature cars of all sizes — many, whatever their paint color, will have a tint of green figuratively.

Monsters and superheroes are framed by spectacular special effects on IMAX screens, and the industry's big stars flex their muscles, figuratively and literally.

TAIWAN, or Chinese Formosa, is considered a Foo or district of the province of Fokien, and is governed by a Taoutai extraordinary, who, though responsible to the provincial viceroy, possesses the privilege of memorialising the Throne direct. “The district of Taiwan,” says the Chinese Government Chart, of which a copy was supplied to me by the Formosan authorities, “is bounded in the rear by mountains, and in front by the sea. The ancestral hills of Formosa derive their origin from the Woo-hoo-mun (Five Tiger Gate), the entrance to Foochow, whence they glided across the sea. In the ocean towards the east are two places called Tungkwan (Damp Limit) and Pih-mow (White Acre), which mark the spots where the dragons of the Formosan hills emerged. These sacred reptiles had pierced unseen the depths of ocean, and announcing their ascent to the surface by throwing up the bluff at Kelung-head, by a number of violent contortions heaved up the regular series of hills, valleys, and plains that extend north and south in varied undulations for the space of 1000 leagues (applied figuratively). The mountain-peaks are too multitudinous to enumerate, and the geography of the island too comprehensive to take into present consideration ; we will therefore confine ourselves to a few general remarks. In rear of the hills, eastward, flows the ocean ; facing them, to the westward, is the sea ; and between lies the prefecture of Taiwan.”

1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary available on Wikisource Shepherd A word naturally of frequent occurrence in Scripture. […] This word is used figuratively to represent the relation of rulers to their subjects and of God to his people.