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Webster 1913 Edition


Illiteral

Il-lit′er-al

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Adj.
Not literal.
[R.]
B. Dawson.
Il-lit′er-ate-ly
,
adv.
Il-lit′er-ate-ness
,
Noun.

Definition 2024


illiteral

illiteral

English

Adjective

illiteral (comparative more illiteral, superlative most illiteral)

  1. Not literal.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of B. Dawson to this entry?)
    • 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 []