compacture

English

Etymology

From Latin compactūra.

Noun

compacture (uncountable)

(obsolete) The fact of being closely put together; compact nature or structure.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX:
  […] ouer it a faire Portcullis hong, / Which to the gate directly did incline, / With comely compasse, and compacture strong […]

Latin

Participle

compactūre

vocative masculine singular of compactūrus

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