compages

/ kəmˈpeɪdʒiːz /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) a structure or framework

Word History and Origins

Origin of compages¹

C17: from Latin, from com- together + pag-, from pangēre to fasten

Example Sentences

This is Nature’s palladium, health’s magazine; it works seven manner of ways, as Nature requires, for it scorns to be confined to any particular mode of operation; so that it affecteth the cure either hypnotically, hydrotically, cathartically, poppismatically, pneumatically, or synedochically; it mundifies the hypogastrium, extinguishes all supernatural fermentations and ebullitions, and, in fine, annihilates all nosotrophical morbific ideas of the whole corporeal compages.

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The art with which these threads are woven together was recognized by Wolf himself, who admitted the difficulty of applying his theory to the “admirabilis summa et compages” of the poem.

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“Octingentorum annorum fortuna disciplinaque compages hæc coaluit, quæ convelli sine exitio convellentium non potest.”

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Tacitus, his compages of the Roman empire, xxxiv;says that Poppæa was surrounded with fortune-tellers, 366.

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Second to none, as friends to the individual, they are first and foremost among the compages, the bonds and rivets of the race.’ 

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