Lewis Short
fĭgūrātĭo (noun F) : figuro (post-Aug.).
* A forming, fashioning; shape, form, figure: nervi hic teretes, illic lati, ut in uno quoque poscit figuratio,Plin. 11, 37, 88, § 217: zona duodecim signis conformata exprimit depictam a natura figurationem,Vitr. 9, 4: Apollinis,App. Dogm. Plat. 1.
* Trop.
* Imagination, fancy: si spei figuratione tardius cadit,Quint. Decl. 12, 27; vanae,id. ib. 6, 4.
* Form of a word: (diurnare) ex ea figuratione est, qua dicimus perennare,Gell. 17, 2, 16.
* Figurative mode of speaking: quisquam illorum his figurationibus uteretur, quae Graeci schemata vocant?Fronto, Ep. ad Anton. 1, 2; Lact. 1, 11, 24; 30.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary