| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In a figurate manner.[Websters]
2. In an ornate manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Rarely used adverbial inflection of the adjective figurate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (figurate) | 1. Of a definite form or figure.[Websters]. 2. Figurative; metaphorical.[Websters]. 3. 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.[Websters]. 4. Being divisible.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being decimal.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being complementary.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being incommensurable.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being reciprocal.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being prime.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Infrequently used base adjective of the adverb figurately.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FIGURATELY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: figurate
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Adjective] Of a certain determinate form. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not. | 2: [Adjective] Resembling any thing of a determinate form; as figurate stones, stones or fossils resembling shells. | 3: [Adjective] 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. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
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Common Expressions: figurate
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Figurate counterpoint | 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). Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Figurate number | A figurate number is a number that can be represented as a regular and discrete geometric pattern (e.g. dots). If the pattern is polytopic, the figurate is labeled a polytopic number, and may be a polygonal number or a polyhedral number. (references) | ||
| 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, 10, etc. . . . . . . . etc. 1, 4, 10, 20, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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| Figurate number | 37 | Figurate number | 37 | |
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