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Webster 1913 Edition

Figurate

Fig′ur-ate

,
Adj.
[L.
figuratus
, p. p. of
figurare
. See
Figure
.]
1.
Of a definite form or figure.
Plants are all
figurate
and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not.
Bacon.
2.
Figurative; metaphorical.
[Obs.]
Bale.
3.
(Mus.)
Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony;
as,
figurate
counterpoint or descant
.

. 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. . . . 1, 3, 6, 10, etc. . . . . . . . etc. 1, 4, 10, 20, etc . . . . . . . . . . . .

Webster 1828 Edition

Figurate

FIG'URATE

,
Adj.
[L. figuratus.]
1.
Of a certain determinate form.
Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not.
2.
Resembling any thing of a determinate form; as figurate stones, stones or fossils resembling shells.
3.
Figurative. [Not used.]
Figurate counterpoint, in music, that wherein there is a mixture of discords with concords.
Figurate descant, that in which discords are concerned, though not so much as concords. It may be called the ornament or rhetorical part of music, containing all the varieties of points, figures, syncopes, and diversities of measure.

Definition 2024

figurate

figurate

English

Adjective

figurate ‎(not comparable)

  1. Forming a figure.
    • 1880, Alex. Napier, translator, A Handbook of Physical Diagnosis, translation of, 1877, Paul Guttmann, [unknown title], third German edition; New York: William Wood & Company, page 296,
      Normal urine is perfectly clear, containing neither crystalline nor any other organic figurate element, except possibly now and then traces of mucus.
    • 1978, Lawrence Marvin Solomon, Nancy B. Esterly, and E. Dorinda Loeffel, Adolescent Dermatology, Saunders, ISBN 0721684920, page 414,
      Because large figurate lesions (cyclic, annular, or serpiginous) may exist […]

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Esperanto

Adverb

figurate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of figuri

Italian

Verb

figurate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of figurare
  2. second-person plural imperative of figurare
  3. feminine plural of figurato

Latin

Verb

figūrāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of figūrō

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