unfiguredadj.
1. Not expressed in, or employing, figurative speech.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [adjective] > literal
unfigured1577
unmetaphorical1641
unrhetorical1680
literal1690
unfigurative1780
uncaricatured1880
non-metaphorical1941
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. i. sig. Ss.vii/2 The vnfigured and vncouered promises..in the Psalmes.
1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xv. 317 What we call the moral, is the unfigured sense or meaning of the Allegory.
1828 G. S. Faber Sacred Cal. Prophecy I. i. i. 11 The unfigured language of highly cultivated nations.
1904 E. Dowden Robert Browning 68 A plain, unfigured and uncoloured style.
2. Not marked with a numerical figure or figures.
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society > communication > book > leaves or pages of book > [adjective] > having pages numbered > unnumbered
unfigured1596
unpaged1624
unpaginated1858
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [adjective] > parts in harmony or counterpoint > bass part > not figured
unfigured1873
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. F2 v Hee..in halfe a quire of paper..hath left the Pages vnfigured.
1873 H. C. Banister Music 62 It is understood that the unfigured notes bear Triads.
1873 H. C. Banister Music 287 All the Unfigured Basses.
3.
a. Not including figures of persons, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [adjective] > including several figures > not including figures
unfigured1624
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. 96 In vnfigured paintings the noblest is, the imitation of Marbles, and of Architecture it selfe.
b. Not (yet) depicted by a figure.
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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [adjective] > not yet described (of species, etc.)
nondescript1670
undescribedc1680
unfigured1822
1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 244 Nautilus, an unfigured species deeply umbilicated.
1869 D. 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.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [adjective] > of types of syllogism
modal1569
hypothetical1588
prosyllogistical1588
contract1605
prosyllogistic1652
monstrative1653
enthymematic1654
epicheirematic1656
hypothetica1680
pure1697
indirect1728
dialectal1767
tollent1770
conjunctivea1856
hypothetico-disjunctivea1856
schematica1856
unfigureda1856
subsumptive1884
episyllogistic1886
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. App. 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.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic viii. 244 Reducing all Mediate Inference to what he calls the Unfigured Syllogism.
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