rare. [f. FIGURE v. + -MENT.] a. Presentation of figures to the mind. b. Introduction as a figure or ornament.
1850. Blackie, Æschylus, II. 237.
| But yesternight, with figurement most clear, | |
| I dreamt; hear thou the theme. |
1879. G. Meredith, Egoist, I. xiv. 255. Nor will it be contested that the attentive circular eyes of the humble domestic creatures are an embellishment to Royal pomp and grandeur, such truly as should one day gain for them an inweaving and figurement—in the place of bees, ermine tufts, and their various present decorations—upon the august great robes back-flowing and foaming over the gaspy page-boys.
