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Figure [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. fig'ur. [Latin figura, from figo, to fix or set. See Feign .]

2. The form of any thing as expressed by the outline or terminating extremities. Flowers have exquisite figures. A triangle is a figure of three sides. A square is a figure of four equal sides and equal angles.

3. Shape; form; person; as a lady of elegant figure

4. A good figure or person, in man or woman, gives credit at first sight to the choice of either.

5. Distinguished appearance; eminence; distinction; remarkable character. Ames made a figure in Congress; Hamilton, in the cabinet.

6. Appearance of any kind; as an ill figure; a mean figure

7. Magnificence; splendor; as, to live in figure and indulgence.

8. A statue; an image; that which is formed in resemblance of something else; as the figure of a man in plaster.

9. Representation in painting; the lines and colors which represent an animal, particularly a person; as the principal figures of a picture; a subordinate figure

10. In manufactures, a design or representation wrought on damask, velvet and other stuffs.

11. In logic, the order or disposition of the middle term in a syllogism with the parts of the question.

12. In arithmetic, a character denoting a number; as 2. 7. 9.

13. In astrology, the horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.

14. In theology, type; representative.

15. Who was the figure of him that was to come. Romans 5:14 .

16. In rhetoric, a mode of speaking or writing in which words are deflected from their ordinary signification, or a mode more beautiful and emphatical than the ordinary way of expressing the sense; the language of the imagination and passions; as, knowledge is the light of the mind; the soul mounts on the wings of faith; youth is the morning of life. In strictness, the change of a word is a trope, and any affection of a sentence a figure; but these terms are often confounded.

17. In grammar, any deviation from the rules of analogy or syntax.

18. In dancing, the several steps which the dancer makes in order and cadence, considered as they form certain figures on the floor.

Figure [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To make a figure; to be distinguished. The envoy figured at the court of St. Cloud.

Figure [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. fig'ur.

2. To form or mold into any determinate shape.

3. Accept this goblet, rough with figured gold.

4. To show by a corporeal resemblance, as in picture or statuary.

5. To cover or adorn with figures or images; to mark with figures; to form figures in by art; as, to figure velvet or muslin.

6. To diversify; to variegate with adventitious forms of matter.

7. To represent by a typical or figurative resemblance.

8. The matter of the sacraments figureth their end.

9. To imagine; to image in the mind.

10. To prefigure; to foreshow.

11. To form figuratively; to use in a sense not literal; as figured expressions. [Little used.]

12. To note by characters.

13. As though a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.

14. In music, to pass several notes for one; to form runnings or variations.

Figure [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

2. The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble.

3. A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.

4. A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc.

5. The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure.

6. Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.

7. A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc.

8. Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure.

9. A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative.

10. A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement.

11. The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.

12. Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.

13. A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.

14. Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.

15. A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.

16. To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.

17. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.

18. To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.

19. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.

20. To prefigure; to foreshow.

21. To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.

22. To embellish.

Figure [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.

2. To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination.

Figure-caster [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. FIG'URE-CASTER ,

2. FIG'URE-FLINGER, noun A pretender to astrology.

Figure-stone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A name of the agalmatolite, or bildstein.

Figured [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Represented by resemblance; adorned with figures; formed into a determinate figure.

2. In music, free and florid.

Figured [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.

2. Not literal; figurative.

3. Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3.

4. Indicated or noted by figures.

Figured [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Figure

Figurehead [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.

2. A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.

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11 KJV and 6 BSB verses contain “figure”

Deuteronomy 4:16

Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,

1 Kings 6:29

And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.

Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

2 Chronicles 4:3

And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.

Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

Isaiah 44:13

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

Ezekiel 1:26

And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

Above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne with the appearance of sapphire, and on the throne high above was a figure like that of a man.

Ezekiel 8:2

Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.

Then I looked and saw a figure like that of a man. From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber.

John 16:25

These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

John 16:29

His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.

His disciples said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech.

Acts 7:43

Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

Acts 28:11

And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.

After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.

Romans 5:14

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

1 Corinthians 4:6

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride in one man over another.

Hebrews 9:9

Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.

Hebrews 11:19

Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.

1 Peter 3:21

The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Sirach 49:9

For he made mention of the enemies under the figure of the rain, and directed them that went right.