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figurable

figurable adjective: capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.

Adjective

figurable (comparative more figurable, superlative most figurable)

  1. Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
    • figurable substrate
    • Lead is figurable, but water is not.
  2. Capable of being figural or emblematic.
    • On the terms of what is here held a true Philosophy, the Self-regulating ability of an habitual oscillation between Objectiveness and Subjectivity, which produres for us our culminating faculty of Philosophy, is so truly the real fulcrum to all lower menal function, that it seems the fair...1873, Sara S. Hennell, Present Religion: as a Faith Owning Fellowship with Thought, page 421
    • Nox is the daughter of Orcus and so one of the three infigurables; but through reason she becomes the most ancient of the gods, and in this aspect is figurable. She stands for the materia prima, and as a goddess can have a figurable statue, an old woman, wearing black clothes, with black wings of...1999, Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, page 309
  3. Able to be imagined; conceivable.
    • figurable entity
    • figurable term

Examples of figurable in a sentence

  • The same is to be said in other respects; matter is not only figurable and extendible, but de facto figured and extended.1733, Andrew Baxter, An Enquiry Into the Nature of the Human Soul, page 354:
  • Nox is the daughter of Orcus and so one of the three infigurables; but through reason she becomes the most ancient of the gods, and in this aspect is figurable.1999, Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, page 309:
  • Indeed, Fichte questions Kant's equation, according to which to know is to represent, and to represent is to make the object “figurable”.2010, Violetta L. Waibel, J. Daniel Breazeale, Tom Rockmore, Fichte and the Phenomenological Tradition, page 329:
  • Remember: figuring out the un-figurable is the ultimate oxymoron.2006, Thomas O’Donnell, I Am Who I Am: An Autobiography of God, page 21:

Forms of figurable

comparativemore figurable
superlativemost figurable

Origin of figurable

From figure + -able.

Words formed from figurable

Questions about figurable

What does figurable mean?
Figurable means capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
How do you use figurable in a sentence?
The same is to be said in other respects; matter is not only figurable and extendible, but de facto figured and extended.
What part of speech is figurable?
Figurable is an adjective.

Words near figurable in the dictionary

  1. figulines
  2. figura
  3. figura etymologica
  4. figurabilities
  5. figurability
  6. figurable
  7. figurae
  8. figurae etymologicae
  9. figural
  10. figuralities
  11. figurality

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