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	Definition: figurate from Online Medical Dictionary
		"Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not." (Bacon)
		Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.
		In the following example, the two lower lines are composed of figurate numbers, those in the second line being triangular, and represented thus:.
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	Definition of Figurate from dictionary.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not.
		(Mus.) Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.
		Note: In the following example, the two lower lines are composed of figurate numbers, those in the second line being triangular, and represented thus: --.
	www.dictionary.net /figurate (79 words)

	FanFiction.Net - Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		1 definition found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : Figurate *\Fig"urate\**, a.
		[1913 Webster] Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not.
		(Mus.) Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.
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	convolutes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		To frame (a discourse) according to rhetorical figures; to adorn with figures of speech.
		Employment of figurate or florid counterpoint; alteration of a theme or counterpoint by the introduction of passing-notes, rapid figures, etc.
		Figurative Counterpoint is of two Kinds, in one, Discords are introduced occasionally, as passing Notes..in the other, the Discord bears a chief Part of the Harmony.
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	Chapter Figuline <i>to</i> File of F by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments.
		One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.
		In the following example, the two lower lines are composed of figurate numbers, those in the second line being triangular, and represented thus: —
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	The Good Shepherd Institute: Pastoral Theology and Sacred Music for the Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In general it may be said that diminished and, to a less extent, augmented intervals should be avoided in church composition, because they figure so prominently in ‘expressive’ music.
		On the other hand, there is apparent also a foreshadowing of that particular type of counterpoint which was later developed by such German contrapuntists as J. Bach of the 18th century and Max Reger of the 19th and 20th centuries.
		Toward the end of the 15th century, music had become so involved in the simultaneous use of a number of texts set simultaneously to a complex type of counterpoint that the singers’ words were practically unintelligible.
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	figurate - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Figurate : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		figurate : Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
		) Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.
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	figurability dictionary of the intertextual fabric
		figurability, figurable, figural, figurant, figurate, figurated, figurately, figuration, figurative,...
		Descartes The properties of extension are divisibility, figurability, and mobility.
		Dictionary of Philosophy Divisibility, figurability and mobility, are the notes of extension, which appears to be little more thin what Descartes Scholastic teachers called geometrical space
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