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unˈfigured, (ppl.) a.
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1. Not expressed in, or employing, figurative speech.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades iv. i. 534/2 The vnfigured and vnrecouered promises..in the Psalmes. 1783Blair Lect. I. xv. 317 What we call the moral, is the unfigured sense or meaning of the Allegory. 1827G. S. Faber Sacr. Cal. Prophecy (1844) I. 8 The unfigured language of highly cultivated nations. 1904Dowden Browning 68 A plain, unfigured and uncoloured style.
2. Not marked with a numerical figure or figures.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden F 2 b, Hee..in halfe a quire of paper..hath left the Pages vnfigured. 1873H. C. Banister Music 62 It is understood that the unfigured notes bear Triads. Ibid. 287 All the Unfigured Basses.
3. Not including figures of persons, etc.
1624Wotton Elem. Archit. 96 In vnfigured paintings the noblest is, the imitation of Marbles, and of Architecture it selfe.
b. Not (yet) depicted by a figure.
1822J. Parkinson Oryctology 244 Nautilus, an unfigured species deeply umbilicated. 1869D. G. Elliot (title), The new and heretofore unfigured Species of the Birds of North America.
4. Logic. Of a syllogism: Not belonging to one of the usual figures.
1838Sir W. Hamilton Logic App. (1860) IV. 350 The Unfigured Syllogism, or that in which the terms compared do not stand to each other in the reciprocal relation of subject and predicate. 1864Bowen Logic viii. 244 Reducing all Mediate Inference to what he calls the Unfigured Syllogism. |