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contextured

contextured adjective: formed into a texture or woven together. Also the simple past and past participle of contexture.

Adjective

contextured (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Formed into a texture or woven together
  2. (archaic) arranged or composed.
    • Round his mysterious Me, there lies, under all those wool-rags, a Garment of Flesh (or of Senses), contextured in the Loom of Heaven; [...]1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Pure Reason”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 44

Also used as

contextured is also the simple past and past participle of contexture.

Questions about contextured

What does contextured mean?
Contextured means formed into a texture or woven together.
What part of speech is contextured?
Contextured is an adjective.

Words near contextured in the dictionary

  1. contextualizes
  2. contextualizing
  3. contextually
  4. contextural
  5. contexture
  6. contextured
  7. contextures
  8. contexturing
  9. conteyne
  10. conteyned
  11. conteynes

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