compacture

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noun

The fact of being closely put together; compact nature or structure.

OriginLatin compactūra →
Scrabble 18
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Meanings

nouncompacture (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableThe fact of being closely put together; compact nature or structure.

    […] ouer it a faire Portcullis hong, / Which to the gate directly did incline, / With comely compasse, and compacture strong […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latincompactūra
  2. Englishcompacture

From Latin compactūra.

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APA

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Chicago

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