Allusion: alternatives and connections

Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative.

To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figurativel…

A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and…

Figurative; symbolical.

Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.

Largeness, in a figurative sense; breadth; abundance; fullness.

To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to gene…

To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tu…

Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray.

To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circu…

A halo, actual or figurative.

Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discours…

An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.

The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severit…

The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.

That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.