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▪ I. figurate, ppl. a. and n.|ˈfɪgjʊəreɪt|
[ad. L. figūrāt-us, pa. pple. of figūrāre to form, fashion, f. figūra figure.]
A. ppl. a.
†1. Framed according to, or exemplifying, ‘figures’ of grammar or rhetoric. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 394 Auoyr course..for auoyr courouse, and many suche be figurate by syncopa. 1669Milton Accedence Wks. 1738 I. 607 Of figurate Construction, what is useful, is digested into several Rules. 1674Petty Disc. Dupl. Proportion Ded. A v, Figurate and measured periods.
†b. = figurative 4. Obs.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xviii. 34 In these woordes..there laie priuely hidden some figurate & mistical manier of speaking. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 II. 363 Some do scarce admit those figurate senses. 1728in Earbery tr. Burnet's St. Dead II. 47 The Diction of holy Scripture is figurate.
†c. As pa. pple.: Figured, prefigured. Obs.
1563Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. Wks. 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.
1830Westm. Rev. XIII. 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 fæces (opposed to diffluent).
1626Bacon Sylva §602 Plants are all Figurate and Determinate, which Inanimate Bodies are not. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 801 Tertullian..drives the business so far, as to make the Soul itself..Figurate. 1755Johnson, 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.
1867J. Hogg Microsc. i. ii. 133 The symmetrical and figurate depositions of siliceous crystals.
3. Math.
†a. = figural 2. Obs.
1614T. Bedwell Nat. Geom. Numbers i. 1 A rationall figurate number is a number that is made by the multiplication of numbers betweene them-selues. 1636Recorde's Gr. Artes 559 A Figurate Number is a number made by the multiplication of one number or more by another. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (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).
1706W. Jones Syn. Palmar. Matheseos 163 The Sums of Numbers in a Continued Arithmetic Proportion from Unity are call'd Figurate..Numbers. 1785Hutton Math. Tables 7 The several orders of figurate numbers, which he [Vieta] calls triangular, pyramidal, etc. 1816tr. Lacroix's Diff. & Int. Calculus 528 Ex. 2 The sum of the x first terms of any progression of figurate numbers being required.
1666Collins in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 122 As to Figurate Arithmetic, it is largely handled in Maurolycus.
4. Music. = florid. Cf. figured 7 a.
1708J. Harris Lex. Techn. s.v. Descant, Figurate or Florid Descant, is that wherein Discords are concerned, as well (though not so much) as concords. 1795Mason Ch. Mus. 28 Figurate..we now employ to distinguish florid from more simple Melody. 1833New Monthly Mag. XXXVIII. 199 Haydn's masses are more figurate than those of his predecessors.
B. n.
†1. Something possessing form or shape. rare.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey 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: a square number. Cf. A. 3 a. Obs.
1614T. Bedwell Nat. Geom. Numbers i. 4 The figurate 4 is made by one multiplication of one number by it selfe. Ibid., An equilater figurate is made of equall numbers, or of one number multiplied by it selfe.
b. (See A. 3 b.)
1796Hutton Math. Dict. I. 469 Malcolm's Arithmetic, p. 396, where the subject of Figurates is treated in a very..perspicuous manner.
▪ II. † ˈfigurate, v. Obs.
[f. L. figūrāt- ppl. stem of figūrāre to figure.]
1. trans. To give figure or shape to; to shape.
1615Crooke Body of Man 265 The harder and more solide parts are figurated together, but not together perfected. For of the bones some are sooner perfected, some later. Ibid. 307 Sixe dayes it is in Milke..Twelue figurate the flesh. 1623in Cockeram.
2. To present in figure, outline, or visible shape.
1704Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 38 So do Chronological Tables figurate to us the Series and Concatenation of Times.
3. a. To represent by a figure or emblem; to typify. b. To speak of in a figure, or figuratively. c. To treat as figurative. d. To liken or compare to.
a.1533Coverdale Lord's Supper 451 They did in their gesture and rite figurate a certain image of a sacrifice. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. v. Wks. 1856 I. 62 The glowe worme figurates my valour. 1609Bible (Douay) Gen. xiv. Comm., Melchisedec..knew how to figurate his eternal priesthood. 1654Jer. Taylor Real Pres. 274 The Fathers..call the figure, by the name of the thing figurated.
b.1643R. O. Man's Mort. v. 22 It is well figurated in Scripture by sleepe.
c.a1806S. Horsley Serm. (1811) 408 Those..who have improved upon St. Austin's hint of figurating this passage.
d.c1450Henryson Mor. Fab. 22 This feinȝit Foxe may well bee figurate To flatterers.
4. To furnish with figures of speech.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 292 There is neither definition, distribution..or any scheme figurating a speech.
5. Math.: cf. figurate a. 3 a and figural 2.
1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 289 To Figurate any Cossick is Cossically to multiply the same..by it self.
Hence ˈfigurated ppl. a.; in quots. = figurate.
1642F. Potter Interpr. of No. 666, 195 The number 30 is a figurated number, because three times ten, or five times six, make this number. 1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. ii. (1682) 202 After the dissolution of Figurated matter. 1848Craig, Figurated, having a determinate form. |