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figured, ppl. a.|ˈfɪgəd, -jʊəd|
[f. figure v. and n. + -ed1 and -ed2.]
1. In various senses of the vb.: Shaped into a figure or figures; represented by figures, etc.
1552Huloet, Figured like an Image, imaginatus. 1599Shakes. Pass. Pilgr. 52 He refus'd to take her figur'd proffer. 1697Dryden æ neid v. 704 This Goblet, rough with figur'd Gold. 1710Pope Windsor For. 335 The figur'd Streams in Waves of Silver roll'd.
2. Having a particular figure or shape. In comb. with advbs., as fair figured, foul figured, ill figured.
a1400Morte Arth. 2151 The faireste fygured folde that fygurede was ever. c1430Pilgr. Lyf. Manhode iv. ii. (1869) 175 Thilke beste was..so foule figured that [etc.]. a1533Ld. Berners Huon clv. 593 Thoughe they were ones fayre now they be fowle and yll fygured. 1821T. Dwight Travels II. 141 Its summits are finely figured, and richly diversified.
†3. Having definite shape; also, formed into figures or patterns. Cf. figurate A. 2. Obs.
1626Bacon Sylva §588 Trees and Herbs, in the growing forth of their Boughs and Branches are not figured and keep no order. 1786R. Willan in Med. Commun. II. 118 He had a figured natural stool, and..two or three loose motions. 1789G. White Selborne (1853) II. xli. 272 Geese and cranes..move in figured flights.
4. Adorned or ornamented with patterns or designs. figured card = court card.
c1489Caxton Blanchardyn ii. 15 Riche tapysserye of the destruction of Troye, Well and alonge fygured. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iii. 150 Ile giue..My figur'd Goblets, for a Dish of Wood. 1596Harington Metam. Ajax 36 Fugerd sattin and velvet. 1611Cotgr., Velours a fond de satin..Figured Satin. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. ii. i, A pretty figured linen gown. 1821Shelley Prometh. Unb. iv. i, The figured curtain of sleep. 1882Mrs. Raven's Tempt. II. 87 She wore..a figured shawl.
5. Adorned with rhetorical figures; figurative.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxvi. 10 Figurit speiche, with faceis tua. c1698Locke Cond. Underst. §32 (1762) 127 Figured and metaphorical expressions do well to illustrate more abstruse and unfamiliar ideas. 1727Pope, etc. Art of Sinking 108 Style is divided by the rhetoricians into the proper and the figured. 1861M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 170 The figured language of which he is a master.
6. Of a dance: Consisting of figures.
1711Shaftesbury Charac. III. 91 Enthusiasm, which is..wrought upon by Chalices, Candles, Robes, and figur'd Dances. 1879Geo. Eliot Coll. Breakf. P. 95 Nor any missing of their figured dance.
7. Mus.
a. = florid.
b. figured bass = thorough bass: see bass n.5
1801T. Busby Dict. Mus. s.v. Figured. A bass, accompanied with numerical characters, denoting the harmony formed by the upper or superior parts of the composition, and directing the chords to be played by the organ, harpsichord, or piano-forte, is called a figured bass. 1879Grove Dict. Mus. s.v., Figured Counterpoint is where several notes of various lengths, with syncopations and other ornamental devices, are set against the single notes of the Canto fermo; and Figured melody, or Canto figurato, was the breaking up of the long notes of the church melodies into larger or more rapid figures or passages. 1948G. B. Shaw How to become Mus. Critic (1960) 325 Seventy years ago I filled up the figured basses in Stainer's textbook of harmony quite correctly.
8. Her. (See quot. and cf. figure n. 10 c.)
1830in Robson Brit. Her. III. Gloss. 1889Elvin Dict. Her. s.v., Charges on which human faces are depicted, are blazoned Figured, as the Sun, Crescents, etc.
Hence ˈfiguredly adv.
1636Abp. Williams Holy Table i. 11 Not so figuredly and distinctly in the later. |