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Definition of Literalise
1. Verb. Make literal. "Literalize metaphors"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Literalise
Literary usage of Literalise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1858)
"It is curious to observe that as an adjective it had * The Quarterly Review
recently marked the word literalise in Italics ..."
2. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"But it is far more probably an attempt to literalise the very words of Genesis—the
same in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin, as in English—'the face of the ..."
3. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"But it is far more probably an attempt to literalise the very words of Genesis—the
same in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin, as in English—'the face of the ..."
4. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1881)
"But it is far more probably an attempt to literalise the very words of Genesis—the
same in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin, as in English—'the face of the ..."
5. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1901)
"39 12) given to literalise Jewish metaphor, Papias may have been perplexed by a
comparison of Hebrew with Greek ' interpretations' of Christian traditions. ..."
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