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Knit or woven together; close; firm. [Obs.] The coats, without, are context and callous. Derham.

Pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven. Dr. John Smith (1666).

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.

e places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place. His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance. Macaulay.

To context. [Obs.] Boyle.

d and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context. When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, satisfaction, or triumph, sometimes of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to "Well, it is so." Ha-has, and inarticulate hootings of satirical rebuke. C…

b by omission of its object, leaving it as the representative of an adverbial phrase, the context indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his…

ral sense. On no occasion does he [Paul] loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context. J. M. Mason.

Stiff; stout; strong; as, a sturdy oak. Milton. He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty. Sir H. Wotton.

cribes a future event as a fact only. To emphasize will denotes (according to the tone or context) certain futurity or fixed determination.