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Show FI "¥Fr'c-oNAaT. m [ [culex fiearius] An infed of the fly kind To FIGHT. w..u. preter. faught; part. pafl Jought. [yeohzan, Saxon. 1. To contend in battle; towar; to mak war ; to battle; to contend in arms I is ufed both of armies and fingle combatants King Henry, be thy title right or wrong Shak Lord Clifford vows to fight in thy defence Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the cloud In ranks and fquadrons, and right form of war Shakefp queftio The commo is, if we muf no furr. ender Spain, what have we been fighting for all thi while? The anfwer is ready:- we have been fightin for the ruin of the publick intereft, and the advance: Swift ment of a private For her confederate nations foxght, and kings wer flain Troy was o'erthrown, and a whole empire fell Philips to duel 2. To combat fingle fight 1i to conten One fhall undertake to fght againft another 2 Efdr. xiii The poor wren The moft diminutive of birds, will fght The young ones in her neft, againft the owl Shakefp. Mach 3. To aé as a foldier in any cafe Richard Shak Addifon Of honour, virtue, liberty and Rome 4. It has awith before the perfon oppofed fometimes againfi Ye fight with the Chaldeans €¥ The ftars in their courfes fought againf? Sifera Fudges 8. To contend ‘The hot and cold, the dry and humid fight Sandys %% FicuT. v. a.. To war againft; to combat againit Himfelf alone an equal match he boafts To fight the Phrygian and th' Aufonian hofts Dryd. Zn Fieur. » f. [from the verb. 1. Battle Gabriel, lead forth to battle thefe my fon Tnvincible, lead forth my armed faints By thoufands and by millions rang'd for fight Milton 2. Combat ; duel Whom with three lives Feronia did endue And thrice I fent him to the Stygian fhore >Till the laft ebbing foul return'd no more Dryd 3. Something to fcreen the combatants i fhips Who ever faw a noble fight Hang up your bloody colours in th.e air Up with your fights and your nettings prepare Dryden Warriour I will return again into the houfe, and defire fom conduét of the lady : I am no fighter Shakefp O, 'tis the coldeft youth upon a charge The moft deliberate fighter! Dryden's All for Love Frcarine. participial adj.! [from fight. 1. Qualified for war fit for battle An hoft of fighting men went out to war by bands 2 Chron 2. Occupie war by war; bein ) W Upon the like grounds was raifed the figment o Briareus, who, dwelling- in a city called élecatonchiria, the fancies of thofe times affigned him a hundred hands Browsr Thofe affertions are in truth the figments of thof idle brains that brought romances into church hiftory Bifbop Lloyd It carried rather an appearance of figment an invention, in thofe that handed down the memory o "it, than of truth and reality Weodward. Fr'erecker » / Fr'ouLaTe adj Latin. A bird - an peck; feedula i [from jfgulus Latin. the fcene o In fighting fields as far the fpear I thro As flies the arrow from the well-drawn bow Pop 2. Changed by rhetorical figutes from theprimitive meaning ; not literal How often have we been raile at for undcr&andi'n words in a figurative fenfe, which cannot be literall underftood without overthrowin dence of fenfe and reafon the plaineft evi Stilling fleer This is a figurative exprefiion, where the word are ufed in a different fenfe from what they fignif in their firft ordinary intention Rogers 3. Full of figures ; full of rhetorical exor. nations; full of changes from the origi nal fenfe Sublime fubje@s ought to be adorned with th {ublimeft and with the moft fgzrative expreflions Dryden's Fuvenaly Pref Made of potters clay FI'GURABLE. adj. [from figurs, Latin. Capable of being brought to certain form and retained in it, - Thus lead is fgurable but not water FllouraTivery. adv. [from fgurative, . By a figure; in a fenfe different fro The differences of ieremble and not impreffible to himfelf, in the firft perfon, what belongs to others JSigurable and not figurable, {ciffible and not fciffible are plebeian notions Bacon Ficurasiv'viry. u /. [from figurable.] Th quality of being capable of a certain an ftable form. Fr'curaL. adj. [from figure. 1. Reprefented by delineation Incongruities have been committed by geographer in the ffgural refemblances of feveral regions 2. FicuraL Number Such numbers as d or may reprefent fome geometrical figure in relation to which they are always confidered, and are either lineary, fuperficial or folid Fr'curaTe Harris adj, [figuratus, Latin. 1. Of a certain and determinate form Plants are all figurat an determinate whic inanimate bodies are not ; for look how far the fpiri is able to fpread and continue itfelf, fo far goeth th fhape or figure, and then is determined Bacon 2. Refembling any thing of a determinat form : as, fgurate ftones retaining th forms of fhells in which they were forme by the deluge 3. ¥t'curaTe Counterpoint. [In mufick. That wherein there is a mixture of difcords along with thg concords Harris 4. ¥rcuraTE Defcant. [In mufick.] Tha wherein difcords are concerned thoug not fo much as well as concords; an may well be termed the ornament or rhe of mufick, in regard that i this are introduced all the varieties o points, figures, fyncopes, diverfities o meafures and whatever elfe is capable o adorning the compofition Freura'rion #. / Harris [fguratus, Latin. 1. Determination to-a certain form That never view'd a brave fea-fight n /. [from fght. An invention ; a fiftion; the idea feigned torical par clean.sh data import.tsv out README Herilus in fingle fight T flew duellift FrlemeNt, n f. [ figmentum, Latin. Brown thatrobb'd the lion of his heart And fought the holy wars in Paleftine By this brave duke came eatly to his grave Greatly unfortunate, he fights the cauf Fr'cuTer FaG FI Neither doth the wind, as faras it carrieth avoice wit motio thereof confound any of the delicat and articulate figuration words of th air in variety o Bacon's Nat. Hif? 2. The a& of giving a certain form If motion b in a certain order, ther followet vivification and figuration in living creatures perfedt that which word literally originally imply ; no The cuftom of the apoftle is fguratively to transfe Hammond The words are different, but the fenfe is ftill th fame; for therein are figuratively intended Uzia and Ezechias Brown Satyr is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended, partly dramatically, partly fimply but, for the moft part, fgurativelyand occultly, Dryden's Fuvenal, Dedicat FI'GURE #. / [figura, Latin. 1. The form of any thing as terminated by the outline Flowers have all exquifite ffgures, and the flowe number are chiefly five and four; as in primrofes flowers whic briar-rofes, fingle mufkrofes, fingle pinks and_gillihav five leaves lilies, flowerde luces, borage, buglafs, which have four leaves. Bac Men find green clay that is foft as long as it is in the water, fo ‘that one may printon it all kin of figures, and give it what fhape one pleafes. Boyle I'g'igure.r are properly modifications of bodies5 for pure fpace is not any where terminated, nor can be whether there be or be no formly continued 2. Shape ; form bod init, it isuni Lackes femblance He hath borne himfelf beyond the promife of hi age, doing in the fgure of alamb the feats ofa lion Shakefpeare 3. Perfon; external form; appearance graceful or inelegant, mean or grand The blue German fhall the Tigris drink Ere I, forfaking gratitude and truth Forget the fgure of thatgodlike youth Dryder I was charmed with the gracefulnefs of his figure and delivery, as well as with his difcourfes. Addif A good figure, or perfon, in man or woman, give credit at firft fight to the choice of either 4. Diftinguifhed appearance remarkable character. Clariffa eminence While fortune favour'd, while his arms fuppor "The caufe and rul'd the counfels of the court I made fome figure there; nor was my nam Obfcure, nor I without my fhare of fame Th fpeech Dryd 1 believe, was not fo much'defigne by the knight to inform the court, as to give him Jigure in my eye, and keep up his credit in' th country Addifon's Speéiator Not a woman fhall be unexplained that makes Jigure either as a maid, a wife, or a widow Addifon's Guardian Whether or no they have done well to fet you u for making another kind of figure, time will witnefs Bacon's Nat. Hift Add{fM Many princes made very ill figures upon-th Fr'curATIVE. adj. [ fguratifive, French throne, who before were the favourites of the people from fgura, Latin. Addifon's Freeholder 1. Reprefenting fomething elfe; typical ; 5. Magnificence3 fplendour reprefentative This, they will fay, was figurative, and ferved b God's appointment but for a time, to fhadow ou the true everlafting glory of a more divine fan@ity whereinto Chrift being long fince entered, it feemet that all thefe curious exornations fhould rather ceafe Hooker If it be his chiefend in it to grow rich, thath may live in figure and indulgence, and be able t retire from butinefs to idlenefs and hurry, his trade as to him, lofes all its innocency Law 6. A ftatue; an image; fomething forme in refemblance of {fomewhat elfe Several ftatues, which feemed at a diftance of th whitef |