Contignation

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  • n. The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric.
  • n. A framework or fabric, as of beams.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric.
  • n. A framework or fabric, as of beams.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A frame of beams; a story; the beams that bind or support a frame or story.
  • n. The act of framing together or uniting beams in a fabric.
  • Word Usage
    "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 a happy occasion for pillaging the goods, and for carrying off the materials, of their neighbour's house."