FIGURATE
Etymology 1
Adjective
figurate (not comparable)
Forming a figure.
(music) Florid.
Etymology 2
Verb
figurate (third-person singular simple present figurates, present participle figurating, simple past and past participle figurated)
To shape; to give a figure.
Anagrams
• fruitage
Source: Wiktionary
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.)
Definition: 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, 10, etc. . . .
. . . . etc. 1, 4, 10, 20, etc . . . . . . . . . . . .
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition