compagination

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English

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Etymology

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Latin compaginatio.

Noun

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compagination (countable and uncountable, plural compaginations)

  1. (obsolete) The union of parts; composite structure.
    • 1655, Jeremy Taylor, Unum Necessarium:
      For this is that which the apostler calls 'the body of sin,' a compagination of many parts and members

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for compagination”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)