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Home Dictionary Name: figuredlimited purpose public figure
limited purpose public figure : a person who voluntarily and prominently participates in a public controversy for the purpose of influencing its outcome and who is thus required as a public figure to prove actual malice in a defamation suit called also limited public figure compare public figure ...
Figures
Figures, the numerical characters by which numbers are expressed or written, as the ten digits, which are usually called the Arabic or Indian figures from their supposed origin. 6 Geo. 2, c. 14, allowed expressing numbers by figures in all writs, etc., pleadings, rules, orders, indictments, etc., in courts of justice, as had been commonly used, notwithstanding 4 Geo. 2, c. 26. Under the present system of pleading dates, sums and numbers must be expressed in figures (R.S.C., Ord. XIX., r. 4). See DATES....
public figure
public figure : an individual or entity that has acquired fame or notoriety or has participated in a particular public controversy see also limited purpose public figure compare public official NOTE: A public figure must prove actual malice in order to prevail in a defamation action. ...
Figural
Represented by figure or delineation consisting of figures as figural ornaments...
Figurant
One who dances at the opera not singly but in groups or figures an accessory character on the stage who figures in its scenes but has nothing to say hence one who figures in any scene without taking a prominent part...
Figured
Adorned with figures marked with figures as figured muslin...
limited public figure
limited public figure : limited purpose public figure ...
Figurability
The quality of being figurable...
Figurate
Of a definite form or figure...
Figurately
In a figurate manner...
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