Meaning

Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape..

Definitions by Sense

1. Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
2. Capable of being figural or emblematic.
3. Able to be imagined; conceivable.

Example Sentences

figurable substrate

Lead is figurable, but water is not.

The differences of impressible and not impressible; figurable and not figurable; mouldable and not mouldable; scissile and not scissile; and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions, applied unto the instruments and uses which men ordinarily practise; but they are all but the effects of some of these causes following, which we will enumerate without applying them, because that would be too long.

The same is to be said in other respects; matter is not only figurable and extendible, but de facto figured and extended.

Moreover also, the extension of body and spirit, according to their notion, infinitely differ; for whatsoever extension a body hath, the same is so necessary and essential to it, that it is impossible for it to be more or less extended, when nevertheless a spirit may be more or less extended; as they affirm; and seeing to be moveable and figurable, are only consequential attributes of extension, (for that a spirit is far otherwise moveable and figurable than a body, because a spirit can move and form it self as a body cannot;) the same reason which is good against the one is good against the other also.

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 substitute which justifies, in its repeating them, the old dogmas of Free-Will and Spontaneity (pp.238-40 ) : since the concentrated energy implied in such fulcrum is as naturally figurable for Self-energy, "free" of any cognizable regulation on it, as thence it is figurable for "spontaneous".

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 immense extent.

There, it seems to me, is a major axis for research in art history and theory that encounters psychoanalysis: these latent figures hidden by the great works as their secret truth; a latent figure, a sort of figurable latency, the figurable aspect of a painting, a tension in the figure of the work which something decisive may eventually play itself out on the side of the creator.

Word Forms

• more figurable
• most figurable

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