Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not figured.
  • Literal; devoid of figures of speech. In logic, not determined in reference to figure.

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  • adjective Not figured; not marked with a pattern.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ figured

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Examples

  • Now the terms of everything that is formed or figured are the form and figure of that thing, and without which the thing would be formless and unfigured.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • Now the terms of everything that is formed or figured are the form and figure of that thing, and without which the thing would be formless and unfigured.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Within, there was a small windowless room that held only a bed covered in thick furs and pillows, a lit - tle table, and under the table a small and unfigured wooden chest.

    Fortress Of Frost And Fire Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • Within, there was a small windowless room that held only a bed covered in thick furs and pillows, a little table, and under the table a small and unfigured wooden chest.

    Fortress Of Frost And Fire Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • Bardling and girl stared at each other in amazement; there was nothing left but bare walls, a few unfigured carpets, two stacks of chests, and one truly hideous carved sideboard holding a silver tea service in an extremely ornate pattern.

    Fortress Of Frost And Fire Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • Bardling and girl stared at each other in amazement; there was nothing left but bare walls, a few unfigured carpets, two stacks of chests, and one truly hideous carved sideboard holding a silver tea service in an extremely ornate pattern.

    Fortress Of Frost And Fire Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • Within, upon the first floor above the street, up a wide carven stair, he showed them to a fair room, light and airy, with goodly hangings of dull gold sheen unfigured.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • If only humble life and commonplace incidents and unfigured rhetoric and bald language are the proper materials for the poetry, what shall be said of all literature, ancient and modern, until Wordsworth's day?

    English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

  • This energy is imperceptible, unextended, unfigured, yet it is by no means a mere logical or mental necessity or associative tendency.

    Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Alexander Philip

  • Damask, by the way, takes its name from the city of Damascus where the fabric was first made, and is simply "linen so woven that a pattern is produced by the different directions of the thread," plain damask being the same fabric, but unfigured.

    The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907

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