compacture
English
Etymology
From Latin compactūra.
Noun
compacture (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The fact of being closely put together; compact nature or structure.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] ouer it a faire Portcullis hong, / Which to the gate directly did incline, / With comely compasse, and compacture strong […]
Latin
Participle
compactūre
- vocative masculine singular of compactūrus