plicature

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/ˈplɪkət͡ʃə(ɹ)//ˈplɪkətjʊə(ɹ)/

noun

A doubling; a fold; a plication.

OriginLatin plicatura →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounplicature (plural plicatures)

plural plicatures

  1. archaic outside sciencesA doubling; a fold; a plication.

    For no man can unfold / The many plicatures ſo cloſely preſt / At loweſt verge.

    1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 1, stanza 18, page 5

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
plication

Origin

  1. Latinplicatura
  2. Englishplicature

From Latin plicatura, from plicare (“to fold”).

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APA

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Chicago

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