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Figuration   Listen
noun
Figuration  n.  
1.
The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
2.
(Mus.) Mixture of concords and discords.





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"Figuration" Quotes from Famous Books



... There will occur to every one numerous passages in which the pianoforte is expected to be a kettle-drum, or where the figuration is far better suited to the violin than to the ...
— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding
... as in body among realities, he lent his ear to the story of the four winds that had striven upon the great sea and driven up four great beasts. These beasts Joseph readily understood to be but another figuration of the four great empires; the Babylonian, the Persian, and the Grecian had been blown away like dust, and as soon as the fourth, the Roman Empire, was broken into pieces the kingdom of the whole world would be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. It was Philip the nearly hunchback ...
— The Brook Kerith - A Syrian story • George Moore
... term Lord, as used in our version of the Old 576:27 Testament, is often synonymous with Jehovah, and ex- presses the Jewish concept, not yet elevated to deific apprehension through spiritual trans- 576:30 figuration. Yet the word gradually approaches a higher meaning. This human sense of Deity yields to the divine 577:1 sense, even as the material sense of personality yields to the incorporeal sense of God and man as the infinite 577:3 Principle and infinite idea, - as one Father with His uni- versal family, ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy
... the Cistercian monks was based in large part on a system of opposition which seems to have been wrought out by an elaborate process of invention rather than by spontaneous figuration, and is more of mnemonic than suggestive value. They made two fingers at the right side of the nose stand for "friend," and the same at the left side for "enemy," by some fanciful connection with right and wrong, and placed the little finger on the tip of the nose for "fool" merely because ...
— Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes • Garrick Mallery


Words linked to "Figuration" :   figure, representation


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