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The arrangement and union of the constituent parts of a thing; a weaving together of parts; structural character of a thing; system; constitution; texture. That wonderful contexture of all created beings. Dryden. He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty. Sir H. Wotton.…

Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed. [R.] Carlyle.

The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric. Burke.

A holding together; continuity. [Obs.] Bacon.

Immediately united together; intimately connocted. [R.] We are of Him and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his. Hooker.

To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest. The vertebral arteries are variously contorted. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.

Twisted, or twisted together. "A contorted chain of icicles." Massinger.

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lesen; as, to contract one's shpere of action. In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties. Dr. H. More.

Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.

contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false. I. Watts.

ced contributions paid by luckless peasants, enabled him to keep his straggling troops together. Motley.

Living or messing together; familiar; in companionship. Humble folk ben Christes friends: they ben contubernial with the Lord, thy King. Chaucer.

To beat, pound, or together. Roots, barks, and seeds contused together. Bacon.

To come together; to meet; to unite. [R.] In shortsighted men . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom. Sir I. Newton.

One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body. [Scot.]

A coming together; a meeting. [Obs.] A usual ceremony at their [the witches] convents or meetings. B. Jonson.

The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition. The conventions or associations of several particles of matter into bodies of any certain denomination. Boyle.

Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.

To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance.

To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge. The mountains converge into a single ridge. Jefferson.