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262. It is my wish, while yet I live, to have my boy make some figure in the world. Sheridan, The Rivals, ii. 1. 8t. Outward manifestation; the state of being set out in regular order. Speech is like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure ; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. Bacon . 9. In logic , the form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term. In the second figure the middle term is predicate of both premises; in the third figure it is the subject of both. Some logicians admit only three figures, and they define the first figure as having the middle term the subject of one premise and the predicate of the other. Other logicians admit four figures, and define the first as having the middle term the subject of that premise which contains the predicate of the conclusion, and the predicate of the other premise; while the fourth figure has the middle term the subject of that premise which contains the subject of the conclusion, and the predicate of the other. 10. In astrol ., a diagram which represents the heavens at any time; a scheme; a horoscope; also, a diagram used in the practice of geomancy. She works by charnis, by spells, by the figure , and such Shak ., M. W. of W., iv. 2. He set a figure to discover If you were fled to Rye or Dover. daubery as this is, beyond our element. S. Butler , Hudibras, III. i. 455. figure from grammatical usage is not a figure, but a solecism. The names of most of the figures of rhetoric are inherited from the terms used by the ancient Greek and Roman grammarians and rhetoricians. Also called figure of speech. Figure it selfe is a certaine liuely or good grace set vpon wordes, speaches, and sentences, to some purpose and not in vaine, giuing them ornament or efficacie by many maner of alterations in shape, in sounde, and also in sence. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 133. And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes. 1 Cor. iv. 6. There motley images her fancy strike, Figures ill-pair'd, and similes unlike. Pope , Dunciad, i. 66. IMG:content-1299.png:[blocks in formation] And now, I think, you shall hear some better language: I was obliged to be plain and intelligible in the first scene, because there was so much matter of fact in it; but now, i' faith, you have trope, figure , and metaphor, as plenty as noun-substantives. Sheridan, The Critic, ii. 2. 17. An image; a fancy; a product of the imagination.