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Webster 1913 Edition


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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Contignation

CONTIGNATION

,
Noun.
[L., a beam.]
1.
A frame of beams; a story.
2.
The act of framing together, or uniting beams in a fabric.

Definition 2024


contignation

contignation

English

Noun

contignation (plural contignations)

  1. 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 []
  2. 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.