figurateadj.n.

/ˈfɪɡjʊəreɪt/

Etymology: < Latin figūrātus, past participle of figūrāre to form, fashion, < figūra figure n.

A. adj.

†1.

a. Framed according to, or exemplifying, ‘figures’ of grammar or rhetoric. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > [adjective]

figured?a1513

figurate1530

figurative1589

schematical1679

configurative1787

troped1922

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 394 Auoyr course..for auoyr courouse, and many suche be figurate by syncopa.

1669 J. Milton Accedence To Rdr. sig. A2^v Of figurate Construction what is usefull is digested into several Rules.

1674 W. Petty Disc. before Royal Soc. Ep. Ded. sig. A11 Figurate and measured periods.

†b. = figurative adj. 4. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > characterized by metaphor > metaphorical or figurative

figurative14..

figural?a1500

translated1511

figurate1548

tropological1555

metaphorical1563

tropical1565

tropic1569

translate1582

allusory1587

translative1589

allusive1593

metaphoric1597

transumptive1597

transferent1614

translatitious1637

analogic1638

tralatitious1645

parabolic1696

tropologic1796

transitive1810

transferred1863

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xviii. f. 34 In these woordes..there laie priuely hidden some figurate & mistical manier of speaking.

a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 496 Some..do scarce admit those figurate senses.

1728 T. Foxton tr. T. Burnet Re-surv. Mosaic Syst. Creation II. 47 in Of State of Dead The Diction of holy Scripture is..figurate.

†c. As past participle: Figured, prefigured. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > [adjective] > foreshadowed, prefigured

figurate1563

adumbrated1650

foreshown1844

foreshadowed1866

1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 85 The sacramentis of the Euangell exhibitis in deid and veritie thai graces figurat only and hoipit for in the Auld Testament.

d. Expressed by figures as opposed to letters.

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [adjective] > written or designated by figures

digit1539

numeral1577

numerical1647

numeric1825

figurate1830

1830 Westm. Rev. 13 229 That system [of numerical signs] is neither literal, like the Grecian..nor altogether figurate, like the Arabic.

a. Having definite form or shape.Now only in medical use, as figurate faeces (opposed to diffluent).

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the world > space > shape > [adjective] > having definite shape

shapen1483

figurate1626

figured1626

shapely1827

shaped1845

crystallized1847

morphous1852

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §602 Plants are all Figurate and Determinate, which Inanimate Bodies are not.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 801 Tertullian..drives the business so far, as to make the Soul it self..Figurate.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Figurate, resembling anything of a determinate form, as figurate stones retaining the forms of shells in which they were formed by the deluge.

b. Formed into figures or patterns.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > [adjective] > shaped > into (a) figure(s)

figured1552

figurate1867

1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. ii. 133 The symmetrical and figurate depositions of siliceous crystals.

3. Mathematics.

†a. = figural adj. 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > produced in a certain way > figurate or polygonal

figural1551

figurate1614

figurated1642

pyramidala1690

polygonal1704

1614 W. Bedwell De Numeris Geometricis i. 1 A rationall figurate number is a number that is made by the multiplication of numbers betweene them-selues.

1636 Record's Ground of Arts 559 A Figurate Number is a number made by the multiplication of one number or more by another.

a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 179 Figurate Fractions are deferred to the Fourth Chapter.

b. figurate numbers: numbers, or series of numbers, formed from any arithmetical progression in which the first term is a unit, and the difference a whole number, by taking the first term, and the sums of the first two, first three, first four, etc., terms as the successive terms of a new series, from which another may be formed in the same manner, and so on. So figurate arithmetic, the science of such numbers.Thus from the arithmetical series 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., a second series 1, 3, 6, 10, etc. (‘triangular’ numbers) is formed as above described; and from this again a third series, 1, 4, 10, 20 (‘pyramidal’ numbers).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic > [noun] > kinds of

decimal arithmetic1608

disme1608

decimal1623

vulgar arithmetic1653

logistic1656

figurate arithmetic1666

rhabdology1667

mental arithmetic1766

binary arithmetic1796

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > produced in a certain way > figurate or polygonal

corporal number1594

figurate numbers1666

polygonal1717

figurate1796

polygon1842

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [noun] > set > sequence > progression > numerical elements in or parts of

parcel1561

figurate numbers1666

harmonic mean1706

harmonical1796

arithmetical1798

harmonic average1949

1706 W. Jones Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos 163 The Sums of Numbers in a Continued Arithmetic Proportion from Unity are call'd Figurate..Numbers.

1785 C. Hutton Math. Tables 7 The several orders of figurate numbers, which he [Vieta] calls triangular, pyramidal, etc.

1816 tr. S. F. Lacroix Elem. Treat. Differential & Integral Calculus 528 Ex. 2 The sum of the x first terms of any progression of figurate numbers being required.

1666 J. Collins Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) I. 122 As to Figurate Arithmetic, it is largely handled in Maurolycus.

4. Music. = florid adj. Cf. figured adj. 7a.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [adjective] > florid

figurate1708

figurative1744

coloured1853

florid1876

melismatic1877

figured1879

figural1938

1708 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum (ed. 2) I Descant, Figurate or Florid Descant, is that wherein Discords are concerned, as well (though not so much) as concords.

1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music 28 Figurate..we now employ to distinguish florid from more simple Melody.

1833 New Monthly Mag. 38 199 Haydn's masses are more figurate than those of his predecessors.

B. n.

†1. Something possessing form or shape. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > [noun] > quality of possessing > that which possesses

figurate1610

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ix. 62 The Content Solid is of Timber, Stone, and other Bodies or Figurates.

2. A figurate number:

†a. a number consisting of factors; esp. an integral power of any number. equilater figurate n. a square number. Cf. A. 3a. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > produced in a certain way > produced by two or more factors

compound number1557

flat numbers1557

compound1597

figurate1614

plain number1704

plane number1704

composite number1727

the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > multiplication > into or by itself > square

quadratec1450

square1557

square number1557

zenzic1557

equilater1614

equilater figurate1614

1614 W. Bedwell De Numeris Geometricis i. 4 The figurate 4 is made by one multiplication of one number by it selfe.

1614 W. Bedwell De Numeris Geometricis i. 4 An equilater figurate is made of equall numbers, or of one number multiplied by it selfe.

b. (See A. 3b.)

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > produced in a certain way > figurate or polygonal

corporal number1594

figurate numbers1666

polygonal1717

figurate1796

polygon1842

1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (new ed.) I. 469 Malcolm's Arithmetic, p. 396, where the subject of Figurates is treated in a very..perspicuous manner.

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† figuratev.

Etymology: < Latin figūrāt- participial stem of figūrāre to figure v.

Obsolete.

1. transitive. To give figure or shape to; to shape.

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the world > space > shape > shape or give shape to [verb (transitive)]

i-schapeOE

shapec1000

afaite?c1225

feigna1300

form1340

deformc1384

proportionc1384

throwc1390

figure?a1400

parec1400

mould1408

fashion1413

portrayc1450

effigure1486

porture1489

moul1530

shapen1535

frame1553

proportionate1555

efform1578

inform1590

formate1599

to shape out1600

infigure1611

figurate1615

immodelize1649

effinge1657

effigiate1660

configure1857

carpenter1884

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 265 The harder and more solide parts are figurated together, but not together perfected. For of the bones some are sooner perfected, some later.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 307 Sixe dayes it is in Milke..Twelue figurate the flesh.

1623 in H. Cockeram Eng. Dict.

2. To present in figure, outline, or visible shape.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)]

depaint?c1225

paintc1275

figurec1380

resemblea1393

portraya1398

represent?a1425

impicture1523

portrait1548

shadow1553

to paint forth1558

storize1590

personate1591

limn1593

propound1594

model1604

table1607

semble1610

rendera1616

to paint out1633

person1644

present1649

to figure out1657

historize1668

to fancy out1669

to take off1680

figurate1698

refer1700

display1726

depicture1739

depict1817

actualize1848

1698 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus I. i. iv. 35 So do Chronological Tables figurate to us the Series and Concatenation of Times.

a. To represent by a figure or emblem; to typify.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > be symbol of [verb (transitive)]

token971

to stand for ——a1387

presentc1390

discern?a1439

liken?c1450

adumbrate1537

figurate?1548

character1555

shadow1574

shade1591

characterize1594

symbolize1603

hieroglyphic1615

personatea1616

modelizea1628

similize1646

symptom1648

express1649

signaturize1669

image1778

embryo1831

symbol1832

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > symbolizing by a type > be type of [verb (transitive)]

betokenc1175

bysenc1325

bodea1387

resemblea1393

figure1401

figurate?1548

moralize1597

typify1635

type1831

?1548 tr. J. Calvin Faythfvl Treat. Sacrament sig. Cvij^v They dide in theyr gesture & ricte figurate a certayne ymage of a sacrifice.

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. I^v The glowe worme figurates my valour.

1609 Bible (Douay) I. Gen. xiv. Comm. Melchisedec..knew how to figurate his eternal priesthood.

1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence 274 The Fathers..call the figure, by the name of the thing figurated.

b. To speak of in a figure, or figuratively.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > express with figure of meaning [verb (transitive)] > express metaphorically or figuratively

allude?1531

figurate1643

figure1836

metaphorize1949

1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie v. 22 It is well figurated in Scripture by sleepe.

c. To treat as figurative.

ΘΚΠ

figuratea1806

a1806 S. Horsley Serm. (1811) 408 Those..who have improved upon St. Austin's hint of figurating this passage.

d. To liken or compare to.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (transitive)] > liken

bysenc1325

anliken1340

comparison1340

liken1340

figure1393

like?c1425

semblea1440

compare1447

comparagea1450

signifya1470

comparate?a1475

figurate?a1500

resemble1533

patterna1586

symbolize with1605

assimilatec1616

similize1620

symbolize1651

similarize1806

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Fox l. 600 in Poems (1981) 27 This feinȝit foxe may weill be figurate To flatteraris.

4. To furnish with figures of speech.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > embellish [verb (transitive)]

flourish13..

coloura1393

embellish1447

pounce1576

thrum1590

foil1611

embroider1614

figurate1652

trick1759

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 279 There is neither definition Distribution..or any Schem figurating a speech.

5. Mathematics: cf. figurate adj. 3a and figural adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > multiply > by itself or raise to a particular power

quaderc1450

to multiply quadrantlya1552

square?a1560

cube1588

quadrate1613

square-square1670

involve1673

to raise to a power1675

cubify1676

figuratea1690

(to multiply) figuratelya1690

biquadrate1694

a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 289 To Figurate any Cossick is Cossically to multiply the same..by it self.

Derivatives

ˈfigurated adj. in quots. = figurate adj. and n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > [adjective] > having (specific) shape

proportionedc1390

figured?a1400

shapena1400

featuredc1500

proportionated1612

figurated1642

shaped1720

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > produced in a certain way > figurate or polygonal

figural1551

figurate1614

figurated1642

pyramidala1690

polygonal1704

1642 F. Potter Interpr. 666 xxviii. 195 The number 30 is a figurated number, because three times ten, or five times six make this number.

1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. iv. 355 After the dissolution of Figurated matter.

1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Figurated, having a determinate form.

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单词	figurate
释义	figurateadj.n. /ˈfɪɡjʊəreɪt/ Etymology: < Latin figūrātus, past participle of figūrāre to form, fashion, < figūra figure n. A. adj. †1. a. Framed according to, or exemplifying, ‘figures’ of grammar or rhetoric. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > [adjective] figured?a1513 figurate1530 figurative1589 schematical1679 configurative1787 troped1922 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 394 Auoyr course..for auoyr courouse, and many suche be figurate by syncopa. 1669 J. Milton Accedence To Rdr. sig. A2^v Of figurate Construction what is usefull is digested into several Rules. 1674 W. Petty Disc. before Royal Soc. Ep. Ded. sig. A11 Figurate and measured periods. †b. = figurative adj. 4. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > characterized by metaphor > metaphorical or figurative figurative14.. figural?a1500 translated1511 figurate1548 tropological1555 metaphorical1563 tropical1565 tropic1569 translate1582 allusory1587 translative1589 allusive1593 metaphoric1597 transumptive1597 transferent1614 translatitious1637 analogic1638 tralatitious1645 parabolic1696 tropologic1796 transitive1810 transferred1863 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xviii. f. 34 In these woordes..there laie priuely hidden some figurate & mistical manier of speaking. a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 496 Some..do scarce admit those figurate senses. 1728 T. Foxton tr. T. Burnet Re-surv. Mosaic Syst. Creation II. 47 in Of State of Dead The Diction of holy Scripture is..figurate. †c. As past participle: Figured, prefigured. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > [adjective] > foreshadowed, prefigured figurate1563 adumbrated1650 foreshown1844 foreshadowed1866 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 85 The sacramentis of the Euangell exhibitis in deid and veritie thai graces figurat only and hoipit for in the Auld Testament. d. Expressed by figures as opposed to letters. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [adjective] > written or designated by figures digit1539 numeral1577 numerical1647 numeric1825 figurate1830 1830 Westm. Rev. 13 229 That system [of numerical signs] is neither literal, like the Grecian..nor altogether figurate, like the Arabic. 2. a. Having definite form or shape.Now only in medical use, as figurate faeces (opposed to diffluent). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [adjective] > having definite shape shapen1483 figurate1626 figured1626 shapely1827 shaped1845 crystallized1847 morphous1852 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §602 Plants are all Figurate and Determinate, which Inanimate Bodies are not. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 801 Tertullian..drives the business so far, as to make the Soul it self..Figurate. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Figurate, resembling anything of a determinate form, as figurate stones retaining the forms of shells in which they were formed by the deluge. b. Formed into figures or patterns. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [adjective] > shaped > into (a) figure(s) figured1552 figurate1867 1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. ii. 133 The symmetrical and figurate depositions of siliceous crystals. 3. Mathematics. †a. = figural adj. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > produced in a certain way > figurate or polygonal figural1551 figurate1614 figurated1642 pyramidala1690 polygonal1704 1614 W. Bedwell De Numeris Geometricis i. 1 A rationall figurate number is a number that is made by the multiplication of numbers betweene them-selues. 1636 Record's Ground of Arts 559 A Figurate Number is a number made by the multiplication of one number or more by another. a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 179 Figurate Fractions are deferred to the Fourth Chapter. b. figurate numbers: numbers, or series of numbers, formed from any arithmetical progression in which the first term is a unit, and the difference a whole number, by taking the first term, and the sums of the first two, first three, first four, etc., terms as the successive terms of a new series, from which another may be formed in the same manner, and so on. So figurate arithmetic, the science of such numbers.Thus from the arithmetical series 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., a second series 1, 3, 6, 10, etc. (‘triangular’ numbers) is formed as above described; and from this again a third series, 1, 4, 10, 20 (‘pyramidal’ numbers). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic > [noun] > kinds of decimal arithmetic1608 disme1608 decimal1623 vulgar arithmetic1653 logistic1656 figurate arithmetic1666 rhabdology1667 mental arithmetic1766 binary arithmetic1796 the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > produced in a certain way > figurate or polygonal corporal number1594 figurate numbers1666 polygonal1717 figurate1796 polygon1842 the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [noun] > set > sequence > progression > numerical elements in or parts of parcel1561 figurate numbers1666 harmonic mean1706 harmonical1796 arithmetical1798 harmonic average1949 1706 W. Jones Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos 163 The Sums of Numbers in a Continued Arithmetic Proportion from Unity are call'd Figurate..Numbers. 1785 C. Hutton Math. Tables 7 The several orders of figurate numbers, which he [Vieta] calls triangular, pyramidal, etc. 1816 tr. S. F. Lacroix Elem. Treat. Differential & Integral Calculus 528 Ex. 2 The sum of the x first terms of any progression of figurate numbers being required. 1666 J. Collins Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) I. 122 As to Figurate Arithmetic, it is largely handled in Maurolycus. 4. Music. = florid adj. Cf. figured adj. 7a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [adjective] > florid figurate1708 figurative1744 coloured1853 florid1876 melismatic1877 figured1879 figural1938 1708 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum (ed. 2) I Descant, Figurate or Florid Descant, is that wherein Discords are concerned, as well (though not so much) as concords. 1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music 28 Figurate..we now employ to distinguish florid from more simple Melody. 1833 New Monthly Mag. 38 199 Haydn's masses are more figurate than those of his predecessors. B. n. †1. Something possessing form or shape. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] > quality of possessing > that which possesses figurate1610 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ix. 62 The Content Solid is of Timber, Stone, and other Bodies or Figurates. 2. A figurate number: †a. a number consisting of factors; esp. an integral power of any number. equilater figurate n. a square number. Cf. A. 3a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > produced in a certain way > produced by two or more factors compound number1557 flat numbers1557 compound1597 figurate1614 plain number1704 plane number1704 composite number1727 the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > multiplication > into or by itself > square quadratec1450 square1557 square number1557 zenzic1557 equilater1614 equilater figurate1614 1614 W. Bedwell De Numeris Geometricis i. 4 The figurate 4 is made by one multiplication of one number by it selfe. 1614 W. Bedwell De Numeris Geometricis i. 4 An equilater figurate is made of equall numbers, or of one number multiplied by it selfe. b. (See A. 3b.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > produced in a certain way > figurate or polygonal corporal number1594 figurate numbers1666 polygonal1717 figurate1796 polygon1842 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (new ed.) I. 469 Malcolm's Arithmetic, p. 396, where the subject of Figurates is treated in a very..perspicuous manner. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2020). † figuratev. Etymology: < Latin figūrāt- participial stem of figūrāre to figure v. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To give figure or shape to; to shape. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > shape or give shape to [verb (transitive)] i-schapeOE shapec1000 afaite?c1225 feigna1300 form1340 deformc1384 proportionc1384 throwc1390 figure?a1400 parec1400 mould1408 fashion1413 portrayc1450 effigure1486 porture1489 moul1530 shapen1535 frame1553 proportionate1555 efform1578 inform1590 formate1599 to shape out1600 infigure1611 figurate1615 immodelize1649 effinge1657 effigiate1660 configure1857 carpenter1884 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 265 The harder and more solide parts are figurated together, but not together perfected. For of the bones some are sooner perfected, some later. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 307 Sixe dayes it is in Milke..Twelue figurate the flesh. 1623 in H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. 2. To present in figure, outline, or visible shape. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)] depaint?c1225 paintc1275 figurec1380 resemblea1393 portraya1398 represent?a1425 impicture1523 portrait1548 shadow1553 to paint forth1558 storize1590 personate1591 limn1593 propound1594 model1604 table1607 semble1610 rendera1616 to paint out1633 person1644 present1649 to figure out1657 historize1668 to fancy out1669 to take off1680 figurate1698 refer1700 display1726 depicture1739 depict1817 actualize1848 1698 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus I. i. iv. 35 So do Chronological Tables figurate to us the Series and Concatenation of Times. 3. a. To represent by a figure or emblem; to typify. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > be symbol of [verb (transitive)] token971 to stand for ——a1387 presentc1390 discern?a1439 liken?c1450 adumbrate1537 figurate?1548 character1555 shadow1574 shade1591 characterize1594 symbolize1603 hieroglyphic1615 personatea1616 modelizea1628 similize1646 symptom1648 express1649 signaturize1669 image1778 embryo1831 symbol1832 society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > symbolizing by a type > be type of [verb (transitive)] betokenc1175 bysenc1325 bodea1387 resemblea1393 figure1401 figurate?1548 moralize1597 typify1635 type1831 ?1548 tr. J. Calvin Faythfvl Treat. Sacrament sig. Cvij^v They dide in theyr gesture & ricte figurate a certayne ymage of a sacrifice. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. I^v The glowe worme figurates my valour. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Gen. xiv. Comm. Melchisedec..knew how to figurate his eternal priesthood. 1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence 274 The Fathers..call the figure, by the name of the thing figurated. b. To speak of in a figure, or figuratively. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > express with figure of meaning [verb (transitive)] > express metaphorically or figuratively allude?1531 figurate1643 figure1836 metaphorize1949 1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie v. 22 It is well figurated in Scripture by sleepe. c. To treat as figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > express with figure of meaning [verb (transitive)] > express metaphorically or figuratively > treat as figurative figuratea1806 a1806 S. Horsley Serm. (1811) 408 Those..who have improved upon St. Austin's hint of figurating this passage. d. To liken or compare to. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (transitive)] > liken bysenc1325 anliken1340 comparison1340 liken1340 figure1393 like?c1425 semblea1440 compare1447 comparagea1450 signifya1470 comparate?a1475 figurate?a1500 resemble1533 patterna1586 symbolize with1605 assimilatec1616 similize1620 symbolize1651 similarize1806 a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Fox l. 600 in Poems (1981) 27 This feinȝit foxe may weill be figurate To flatteraris. 4. To furnish with figures of speech. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > embellish [verb (transitive)] flourish13.. coloura1393 embellish1447 pounce1576 thrum1590 foil1611 embroider1614 figurate1652 trick1759 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 279 There is neither definition Distribution..or any Schem figurating a speech. 5. Mathematics: cf. figurate adj. 3a and figural adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > multiply > by itself or raise to a particular power quaderc1450 to multiply quadrantlya1552 square?a1560 cube1588 quadrate1613 square-square1670 involve1673 to raise to a power1675 cubify1676 figuratea1690 (to multiply) figuratelya1690 biquadrate1694 a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 289 To Figurate any Cossick is Cossically to multiply the same..by it self. Derivatives ˈfigurated adj. in quots. = figurate adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [adjective] > having (specific) shape proportionedc1390 figured?a1400 shapena1400 featuredc1500 proportionated1612 figurated1642 shaped1720 the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > produced in a certain way > figurate or polygonal figural1551 figurate1614 figurated1642 pyramidala1690 polygonal1704 1642 F. Potter Interpr. 666 xxviii. 195 The number 30 is a figurated number, because three times ten, or five times six make this number. 1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. iv. 355 After the dissolution of Figurated matter. 1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Figurated, having a determinate form. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < adj.n.1530v.?a1500
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