contignation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or process of framing or slotting together, or uniting, like beams in a fabric. archaic
    — 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, such as of beams. archaic
    — [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.

词形变化

contignations plural

词源

From Latin contignātiō, from contignō (“to join with beams”), from con- + tignum (“beam”).
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