spec. The surrounding sense or context of a passage. Obsolete.

concrete. The whole structure of a connected passage regarded in its bearing upon any of the parts which constitute it; the parts which immediately…

concrete. Context: the immediately connected parts of a discourse. Obsolete.

That which coheres or is connected. (In quot. 1657, ‘context’; = coherence, n. 5) Obsolete.

= context, n. 4.

Contextual relation of thought, speech, or writing; context.

Phonetics. The context in which a speech sound occurs.