Adjective : the literal meaning of a word. ,a literal translation of Goethe. ,a literal description of conditions. ,the literal extermination of a city. ,a literal error.    From Dictionary.com. 

Rather, it is truth presented in non-literal terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [More evidence for the increasing YECiness of ID - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

What is the non-literal meaning of “Obama gave no such order?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Bizarre Claim About Netanyahu in Ha’aretz:] Reference

On understanding non-literal speech : Can people ignore metaphors?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metaphor I: A Brief History of Metaphors in Cognitive Science] Reference

When it departs from conventional meaning is considered non-literal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatics] Reference

And surely it is in this non-literal way that the stories about demons.    From Wordnik.com.  [AGNOSTICISM] Reference

Perhaps, but Flaco isn’t capable of grasping non-literal meanings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bush lifts Alaska drilling ban.] Reference

It must be noticed that indirect acts can also be based on non-literal acts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatics] Reference

Anyway, there has been this discussion about non-literal vs. literal strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Define Yourself, Sir] Reference

The translation below is not mine, but seems decent enough, though non-literal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pentecost Sequence] Reference

I'd argue that there's also a non-literal, metaphysical/metaphorical reading to be made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wisdom, Justice And Mercy] Reference

Animators and caricaturists are primarily interested in this kind of non-literal truthfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Realism and its Synonyms] Reference

Wake us if you ever grow non-literal balls and make waves and progress in online erotica. reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zivity Adds Dudes. Let Me Know How It Goes (#zividude)] Reference

However we have established that my ability to understand non-literal things is diminished greatly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth's "Booms", Linda's discrimination and the unmentionable] Reference

Of course the replacement for the non-literal sense of "literally" would have to be "non-nomenklatura".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: NOMENKLATURA?] Reference

His books certainly support a non-literal approach to Genesis and, hence, the possibility of evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evidence of Design? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

A myth is a non-literal truth: something that feels like the truth even when it does not look like the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2)] Reference

And like all metaphors it s power rests in the peculiar relationship of literal untruth and non-literal veracity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference

More importantly, though, the magical ribbon woven through the story lets us see Carl's journey in non-literal terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Blankenship: In Pixar's Up, Two Chairs Mean the World (SPOILERS)] Reference

The religions they themselves practiced, for the most part, were very non-dogmatic, expansive and definitely non-literal.    From Wordnik.com.  ["the truth is something entirely different"] Reference

This importantly concerns the speaker's intentions concerning indirect speech acts, implicatures, and non-literal contents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatics] Reference

A non-literal translation would have been something like “he though the speech would be treated with utmost importance”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Bizarre Claim About Netanyahu in Ha’aretz:] Reference

There is an interesting entry on the Higgaion blog on the subject of teaching the creation stories in a non-literal fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

In fact, this one goes with something in the ballpark of the 'non-literal' explanation of 有君/亡無君 I mentioned above.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: AMIDAWORLD.] Reference

If you try to suggest that they are non-literal, you have to be able to support your claim from the texts/contexts themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The resurrection of Omphalos - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Especially since engaging the text would probably lead to non-literal interpretations of stuff like that, why would they do it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Authors Errant For The Sake Of Inerrancy?] Reference

All these things, if modeled as points in a metaphoric way, or on some kind of non-literal field, could make for an interesting game.    From Wordnik.com.  [ATITD Tests Psychological Origins of Play] Reference

One is to claim that the contradictory utterance is to be taken as having some non-literal form of meaning, e.g., that it is a metaphor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dialetheism] Reference

Sometimes people use things in a non-literal sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

A lot of song lyrics are themselves kind of non-literal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask MetaFilter] Reference

Preterism seems to be too non-literal in several points to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fundamentally Reformed] Reference

Our version conceals the allusion, by its unfortunate and non-literal rendering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference

Gen 5 is non-literal, and serves to highlight the awesomeness of the pre-diluvian ancestors.    From Wordnik.com.  [finitum non capax infiniti] Reference

But since in doesn't always have a specific 24-hr limit, he believes he can take a non-literal meaning of 'yom' in Genesis 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

"That's captured in the pedestrian and mixed into an athletic movement vocabulary that carries a non-literal narrative," says Welsh of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clog] Reference