compage
compage noun: compages; consistency, solid structure; the compaction of parts into a whole.
Noun
compage (plural compages)
- Compages; consistency, solid structure; the compaction of parts into a whole.
- 1658: Common Tombs preserve not beyond powder: A firmer consistence and compage of parts might be expected from Arefaction, deep buriall or charcoal. — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 31)
- A compages; a unified complex whole formed from the compaction of parts.
- The first note of the evovae—the prevailing or reciting note of the chant—and the final note of the antiphon give the tone of the chant. This word, or rather this compages of letters, has, of course, no connexion whatever with the Bacchic shout of Io or Evoe. I should not allude here to this silly...1886 November, W[illiam] H[enry] James Weale, “Liturgical Books. (Without Musical Notation.)”, in Historical Music Loan Exhibition, Albert Hall, London. June–October, 1885: A Descriptive Catalogue of...
Forms of compage
| plural | compages |
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Origin of compage
From Latin compages, from com- + root of pangere ‘to fasten’.
Questions about compage
- What does compage mean?
- Compage means compages; consistency, solid structure; the compaction of parts into a whole.
- What part of speech is compage?
- Compage is a noun.
- What is the plural of compage?
- The plural of compage is compages.
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