contignation
/kɒntɪɡˈneɪʃən/
contignation noun: the act or process of framing or slotting together, or uniting, like beams in a fabric.
Noun
contignation (plural contignations)
- The act or process of framing or slotting together, or uniting, like beams in a fabric.
- They were easily led to consider the flames that were consuming France, not as a warning to protect their own buildings (which were without any party wall, and linked by a contignation into the edifice of France,) but as an happy occasion […]1796, Edmund Burke, letter on the genius and character of the French Revolution as it regards other nations
- A framework or fabric, such as of beams.
- [W]hen vvee ſpeake of the Intercolumniation or diſtance, vvhich is due to each Order, vve meane in a Dorique, Ionicall, Corinthian Porch, or Cloiſter, or the like of one Contignation, and not in Storied buildings.1624, Henry Wotton, “The Seate, and the Worke”, in The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC, I. part, pages 39–40
Forms of contignation
| plural | contignations |
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Origin of contignation
From Latin contignātiō, from contignō (“to join with beams”), from con- + tignum (“beam”).
Questions about contignation
- What does contignation mean?
- Contignation means the act or process of framing or slotting together, or uniting, like beams in a fabric.
- What part of speech is contignation?
- Contignation is a noun.
- How do you pronounce contignation?
- Contignation is pronounced /kɒntɪɡˈneɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of contignation?
- The plural of contignation is contignations.
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