scholar. Festschriften are often compilations of essays by several authors published on the occasion of a colleague’s birthday or retirement. . See cognate accusative. . adj. Involving a nonliteral, metaphorical or symbolic sense, or containing figures of speech. The term is used in a number of ways to refer to speech or writing that for some reason cannot be interpreted in a strictly literal sense. . n. A rhetorical device that uses language in a distinctive,
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