consarcination

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noun

A patching together; patchwork.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounconsarcination (countable and uncountable, plural consarcinations)

plural consarcinations

  1. 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 Traquair
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    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 254

    Although 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

  1. Latinconsarcinare
  2. Englishconsarcination

From Latin consarcinare, consarcinatum (“to patch together”).

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