compaginate

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/kəmˈpæd͡ʒɪneɪt/

verb

To unite or hold together.

OriginLate Latin compaginātus →
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Meanings

verbcompaginate (third-person singular simple present compaginates, present participle compaginating, simple past and past participle compaginated)

present singular third person compaginates · participle present compaginating · participle past compaginated · past compaginated

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo unite or hold together.

    [O]ur fraternall charities ſeeme to be the ſide-pieces vvhich combine and compaginate the vvhole frame; ſo that theſe three concurrencies do compleat the meanes of our ſoules re-aſcent to her Creator: […]

    1648, Walter Montagu, “The Fourteenth Treatise. The Test and Ballance of Filial and Mercenary Love. §. V. Advises in Order to the Preserving this Sort of Love and Fraternall Dilection, Represented as a Gracious Rule whereby to Judge of Our Rectitude in Filiall Love.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 198

Origin

  1. Late Latincompaginātus
  2. Englishcompaginate

First attested in 1648; borrowed from Late Latin compaginātus, perfect passive participle of compaginō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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