1. Capable of receiving a definite figure or form.
1605. Z. Jones, trans. De Loyer’s Specters, 45. Much lesse can they take a body of the Ayre for that is not figurable.
1644. Digby, Nat. Bodies, xvi. (1645), 177. Wax remaineth figurable, whether it be melted or congealed.
1755. Johnson, s.v. Thus lead is figurable, but not water.
In mod. Dicts.
2. Capable of being represented figuratively.
1880. G. Meredith, Trag. Com., xvi. (1802), 228. He waited, figureable by nothing so much as a wild horse in captivity.
