Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-FIG-U-RA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. configuro.]

1. External form, figure, shape; the figure which bounds a body, and gives it its external appearance, constituting one of the principal differences between bodies. – Encyc.
2. Aspects of the planets; or the face of the horoscope, according to the aspects of the planets toward each other at any time. – Bailey. Johnson.
3. Resemblance of one figure to another. – Bailey. Jones.