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▪ I. configurate, v. Now rare.|kənˈfɪgjʊəreɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of L. configūrā-re: see configure.]
1. trans. To frame by construction, to fashion, shape; to give a configuration to. Also fig.
1566Painter Pal. Pleas. I. 79 The condicion of the noursse, and nature of the milke..doth nowe.. configurate and frame a newe disposition in him. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 29 Divers have tried their cunning to configurate a twin-like image of it. 1755B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sc. iii. v. 288 The Particles so combined and configurated are called the Crystals of such and such Salts, or Metals. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xi, The cavities of the body are so configurated, as externally to exhibit the most exact correspondency of the opposite sides. 1837Sir F. Palgrave Merch. & Friar v. (1844) 195 The varieties of light and shade which our vulgar configurate into the churl with the bunch of thorns on his back.
†2. To fashion according to something else as a model, to conform. Obs.
1582N. T. (Rhem.) 1 Pet. i. 14 Not configurated to the former desires of your ignorance.
†3. Astrol. To associate in a configuration (q.v. sense 2). Obs.
1671Dryden Evening's Love ii. i, Jupiter configurated with malevolent planets.
†4. (?) intr. ‘To show like the aspects of the planets towards each other’ (T.); or (?) to show conformity or congruity of structure. Obs.
a1650Jordan Poems, Where pyramids to pyramids relate, And the whole fabrick doth configurate.
Hence conˈfigurated, conˈfigurating ppl. adjs.
1752Parsons Phil. Trans. XLVII. 513 A little configurated jelly. 1808Herschel ibid. XCIX. 274 Modified..by the configurating power of surfaces.
▪ II. † conˈfigurate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. configūrāt-us pa. pple.: see prec.]
1. Astrol. Associated in configuration (q.v. sense 2).
1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. viii. 258 Fog seems to be a perpetual Effect, or attendant of {male} ☿, if not rather an attendant in Ordinary to {male}, with whomsoever configurate.
2. Shaped, fashioned, constructed.
1715in Phil. Trans. XXIX. 327 The Valvulæ called tricuspides were configurate after the usual manner. |