Meanings
plural consarcinations
- countableobsoleteuncountableA patching together; patchwork.
I don't know if there was any great depravity or moral turpitude in the action, supposing it to be true, for argument sake, if the consarcination of their conjugality is taken into account.
1831, James Hogg, Bush Aboon Traquair2 more examples
It is one thing to take the text of these documents, and to trace out its consarcinations, interpolations, retrenchments; to ascertain, if it may be, what it was in its earliest form, what the age and history of its several parts […]
1854, The Christian Remembrancer, volume 27, page 254Although great proficients in the arts and sciences, the Egyptians were more distinguished for a certain squeamishness of taste, than as gastronomes who could revel in a multiplicity of heterogeneous consarcinations […]
1856, The Union Quarterly
Origin
- Latinconsarcinare
- Englishconsarcination
From Latin consarcinare, consarcinatum (“to patch together”).
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