Contignation

Conˊtig-na′tion

,

Noun.

[L.

contignatio

, fr.

contignare

to join with beams;

con-

+

tignum

beam.]

1.

The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric.

Burke.

2.

A framework or fabric, as of beams.

Sir H. Wotton.

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Noun.

[L., a beam.]

1.

A frame of beams; a story.

2.

The act of framing together, or uniting beams in a fabric.

contignation ‎(plural contignations)

The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric.
- Edmund Burke
  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 […]
A framework or fabric, as of beams.
- Sir H. Wotton
  We mean a porch, or cloister, or the like, of one contignation, and not in storied buildings.