Meaning of contignation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act or process of framing or slotting together, or uniting, like beams in a fabric.
   archaic
2. A framework or fabric, such as of beams.
   archaic

Examples

“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 […]”

“[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.”

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