Definition of "figured" []

• Shaped or fashioned in a particular way. (adjective)
• Decorated with a design; patterned: "My dress is richly figured” ( Amy Lowell). (adjective)
• Represented, as in graphic art or sculpture; depicted. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It may take more talent to invent a single melodic turn of phrase for the expression of a conceit to write the “air” or the “theme” of a chanson, than to place two, three, or more counterpoints against a cantus firmus and to write what one calls figured music, or a finished composition (chose faite), though the latter requires more learning"
• "“Rumors and innuendos, I’m told, in which your name figured prominently.”"
• "McCain figured correctly that he ought to run on his own merrit."