Contignation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kɒntɪɡˈneɪʃən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Contignation is a noun meaning The act or process of framing or slotting together, or uniting, like beams in a fabric.
Meaning
The act or process of framing or slotting together, or uniting, like beams in a fabric.
More Meanings
- (architecture) A framework or fabric, such as of beams.
Example Sentences
[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.
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 […]
Word Forms
- contignations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include coagmentation, contenement, colligation, union, composition, welding.
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