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contignation Obs. or arch.|kɒntɪgˈneɪʃən|
[ad. L. contignātiōn-em, n. of action f. contignāre: see prec. Also in mod.F.]
1. The joining or framing together of beams or boards; the condition or manner of being joined together; jointing together.
1630Donne Serm. Ps. lxviii. 20 Buildings stand by the benefit of their..contignations that knit and unite them..The contignation and knitting suffer them not to cleave. 1641Evelyn Diary 25 Oct.–1 Nov., There stands an arch..it has some imperceptible contignations, which do not betray themselves easily to the eye. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. iv. 330 The congruity of its contignation to another piece of Timber. 1754J. Hildrop Misc. Wks. II. 49 In the contignation (as the learned Doctor calls it) there is no manner of Occasion for Oak.
fig.1632Sanderson Serm. (1681) 289 To dissolve those Joynts and Contignations which..clasp into one Structure those many little members and parts whereof all humane societies consist. 1796Burke Regic. Peace ii. Wks. VIII. 219 Linked by a contignation into the edifice of France.
2. A structure formed by joining timbers together, a piece of joiner's or carpenter's work; hence, any conjoined structure, framework, or ‘frame’ of things.
1634Bp. Hall Wks. (1837) V. 387 In that bright and spacious contignation of the firmament. 1662Petty Taxes 23 The next palace will be built from the whole present contignation of houses at such a distance as, etc. 1676Evelyn Silva xxiv. §13 In Crete they employ'd it [the Cypress]..in the largest Contignations and did formerly build Ships of it. 1889Q. Rev. Apr. 350 He [Goethe] venerates the Cross: but thinks it unworthy of a philosopher to refer the whole scheme of Heaven and earth to ‘that contignation’.
3. spec. A boarding or flooring; a floor, story, or stage.
1592D. R. tr. Hypnerotomachia 63 A marueilous twisted contignation or couering of gold-smiths work, ouer a foure square plaine Court. 1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. Wotton. (1672) 46 A Contignation or Floor born upon the outward wall. 1646J. Gregory Notes & Observ. (1650) 11 Their private Oratories were appointed in the uppermost Contignations of their Houses. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 60 Each Contignation, or Floor. 1749Phil. Trans. XLVI. 230 A Plan of these Works..with Remarks of every thing that was curious in all three Contignations [stories of a salt mine]. 1851G. S. Faber Many Mansions 131 To pass, without obstruction, through doors, or walls, or contignations. |