compacture
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin compactūra.
Noun[edit]
compacture (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The fact of being closely put together; compact nature or structure.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] ouer it a faire Portcullis hong, / Which to the gate directly did incline, / With comely compasse, and compacture strong […]
Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
compactūre