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  1.  Not expressed in, or employing, figurative speech.

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1577.  trans. Bullinger’s Decades, IV. i. 534/2. The vnfigured and vnrecouered promises … in the Psalmes.

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1783.  Blair, Lect., I. xv. 317. What we call the moral, is the unfigured sense or meaning of the Allegory.

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1827.  G. S. Faber, Sacr. Cal. Prophecy (1844), I. 8. The unfigured language of highly cultivated nations.

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1904.  Dowden, Browning, 68. A plain, unfigured and uncoloured style.

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  2.  Not marked with a numerical figure or figures.

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1596.  Nashe, Saffron Walden, F 2 b. Hee … in halfe a quire of paper … hath left the Pages vnfigured.

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1873.  H. C. Banister, Music, 62. It is understood that the unfigured notes bear Triads. Ibid., 287. All the Unfigured Basses.

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  3.  Not including figures of persons, etc.

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1624.  Wotton, Elem. Archit., 96. In vnfigured paintings the noblest is, the imitation of Marbles, and of Architecture it selfe.

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  b.  Not (yet) depicted by a figure.

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1822.  J. Parkinson, Oryctology, 244. Nautilus, an unfigured species deeply umbilicated.

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1869.  D. G. Elliot (title), The new and heretofore unfigured Species of the Birds of North America.

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  4.  Logic. Of a syllogism: Not belonging to one of the usual figures.

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1838.  Sir W. Hamilton, Logic, App. (1860), IV. 350. The Unfigured Syllogism, or that in which the terms compared do not stand to each other in the reciprocal relation of subject and predicate.

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1864.  Bowen, Logic, viii. 244. Reducing all Mediate Inference to what he calls the Unfigured Syllogism.

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