contignation

English

Etymology

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

Noun

contignation (plural contignations)

  1. The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric.
    • Edmund Burke
      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, as of beams.
    • Sir H. Wotton
      We mean a porch, or cloister, or the like, of one contignation, and not in storied buildings.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 contignation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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