contex

English

Etymology

From Latin contexere.

Verb

contex (third-person singular simple present contexes, present participle contexing, simple past and past participle contexed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To weave together; to form by interweaving.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXII:

     Having examin'd also several kinds of Mushroms, I finde their texture to be somewhat of this kind, that is, to consist of an infinite company of small filaments, every way contex'd and woven together, so as to make a kind of cloth […].