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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FIGURATE

a.[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.

FIGURATED

a.Having a determinate form.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FIGURATE

Fig "ur *ate, a. Etym: [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. )

Defn: 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. Figurate counterpoint or descant (Mus. ), that which is not simple, or in which the parts do not move together tone for tone, but in which freer movement of one or more parts mingles passing discords with the harmony; -- called also figural, figurative, and figured counterpoint or descant (although the term figured is more commonly applied to a bass with numerals written above or below to indicate the other notes of the harmony ). -- Figurate numbers (Math. ), 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. , as the successive terms of a new series, from which another may be formed in the same manner, and so on, the numbers in the resulting series being such that points representing them are capable of symmetrical arrangement in different geometrical figures, as triangles, squares, pentagons, etc.

Note: In the following example, the two lower lines are composed of figurate numbers, those in the second line being triangular, and represented thus: --. 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. ... 1, 3, 6, 1 , etc. ....... etc. 1, 4, 1 , 2 , etc. ...........

FIGURATED

FIGURATED Fig "ur *a `ted, a.

Defn: Having a determinate form.

FIGURATELY

FIGURATELY Fig "ur *ate *ly, adv.

Defn: In a figurate manner.