compages

(kəmˈpeɪdʒiːz)

(functioning as singular) a structure or framework

[C17: from Latin, from com- together + pag-, from pangēre to fasten]

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Compages

a system or linking of many parts.

Examples: compages of the Christian faith, 1724; of forces, 1860; of pipes and vessels; of body and spirit, 1740.

Translations

compagine

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framework

References in periodicals archive ?

What Ashbery's skaters seemed to promise for poetry as they sped about their rink was a synesthetic compages, a balling up of sensuous data into one exhilarating linguistic sphere.

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(20) Octingentorum annorum fortuna, disciplina que compages haec coaluit; quae convelli, sine exitio convellentium; non potest.

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