Word Meanings - REFIGURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To figure again. Shak.

Related words: (words related to REFIGURE)

• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• AGAIN
  again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• AGAIN; AGAINS
  Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
• AGAINWARD
  Back again.
• AGAINBUY
  To redeem. Wyclif.
• FIGUREHEAD
  The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship. 2. A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.
• FIGURED
  1. Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin. 2. Not literal; figurative. Locke. Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3. Indicated or noted by figures. Figured bass. See Continued bass, under Continued.
• FIGURE
  A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
• DISFIGURER
  One who disfigures.
• DEFIGURE
  To delineate. These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.
• REFIGURE
  To figure again. Shak.
• PREFIGUREMENT
  The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured. Carlyle.
• DISFIGURE
  To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform. Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own. Milton. Syn. -- To deface; deform; mar; injure. (more info) dis-) + figurer to fashion, shape,
• TRANSFIGURE
  transfiguratum; trans across, over + figurare to form, shape. See 1. To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform. 2. Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to. was transfigured
• PREFIGURE
  To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured." South. (more info) praefiguratum; prae before + figurare to figure. See Figure, and cf.
• DISFIGUREMENT
  1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton. 2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot. Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.