Ḥaqīqah ʿaqliyyah occurs when a verb or its meaning is attributed to what is regarded as its proper bearer, judged from the apparent stance of the speaker.
أَنْبَتَ اللهُ الْبَقْلَ
God caused the plants to grow.
In this example the act is attributed to the agent whom the speaker regards as its real cause. The technical focus is the attribution itself, not merely whether the verb retains its ordinary dictionary meaning.
An utterance can use individually literal words yet assign the action to an agent that is not its proper bearer. Word-level literalness and literal predication are distinct questions.