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consarcination

consarcination noun: a patching together; patchwork.

Noun

consarcination (countable and uncountable, plural consarcinations)

  1. (obsolete) A patching together; patchwork.
    • 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

Forms of consarcination

pluralconsarcinations

Origin of consarcination

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

Questions about consarcination

What does consarcination mean?
Consarcination means a patching together; patchwork.
What part of speech is consarcination?
Consarcination is a noun.
What is the plural of consarcination?
The plural of consarcination is consarcinations.

Words near consarcination in the dictionary

  1. consanguinities
  2. consanguinity
  3. consanguinous
  4. consanguinously
  5. consanguinuity
  6. consarcination
  7. consarcinations
  8. consarn
  9. consarn it
  10. consarned
  11. consarning

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