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Of a definite form or figure. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not. Bacon.

Having a determinate form.

In a figurate manner.

by the name of uniformity; Where pyramids to pyramids relate And the whole fabric doth configurate. Jordan.

To prefigure. [R.] Grafton.

To transfigure; to transform. [R.]

p; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.

Figurate. See Figurate. Figural numbers. See Figurate numbers, under Figurate.

blic familiar with painted form. J. A. Symonds. Figurative counterpointdescant. See under Figurate. -- Fig"ur*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Fig"ur*a*tive*ness, n.

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

des. Heptagonal numbers (Arith.), the numbers of the series 1, 7, 18, 34, 55, etc., being figurate numbers formed by adding successively the terms of the arithmetical series 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, etc.

Having many angles. Polygonal numbers, certain figurate numbers. See under Figurate.

Same as Tetragonal. Pyramidal numbers (Math.), certain series of figurate numbers expressing the number of balls or points that may be arranged in the form of pyramids. Thus 1, 4, 10, 20, 35, etc., are trangular pyramidal numbers; and 1, 5, 14, 30, 55, etc., are square pyramidal numbers.

an arithmetical progression, of which the first term and the common difference are 1. See Figurate numbers, under Figurate.