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nection of parts; manner of joining; construction. [Obs.] "With comely compass and compacture strong." Spenser.

Manure; compost. [Obs.] Shak.

is composed; a composition. [Obs.] Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching. Evelyn.

Compression.

A mass formed by concretion. [Obs.] Johnson.

Same as Confiture. [Obs.]

To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.

The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness. Sir J. Reynolds. If congeniality of tastes could have made a marriage happy, that union should have been thrice blessed. Motley.

Act of fastening. [Obs.]

urmise; guess; suspicion. He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton.

One who conjectures. Hobbes.

The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination. The conjuncture of philosophy and divinity. Hobbes. A fit conjuncture or circumstances. Addison.

To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure. I conjure you, let him know, Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it. Addison.

Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty. [Obs.] Milton.

One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.

Participation in a common nature or character. [R.] Connature was defined as likeness in kind between either two changes in consciousness, or two states of consciousness. H. Spencer.

Joint signature. [R.] Colgrave.

That which is constructed or formed; an edifice; a fabric. [Obs.]

The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. [Obs.] The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.

; 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.