You poisoned him. Literally and figuratively speaking.

I meant it figuratively. I'm so sorry, sir.

Figuratively, however, augur was the name given to a specific religious official, a type of soothsayer or prophet, who foretold events by studying the behavior of birds.

From its literal yet lyrical beginning, the word window has expanded beyond its concrete definition as a construction or design element to be used figuratively in phrases like the poetic

Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from.