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Webster 1913 Edition

(?; 135)

Noun.

[L.

compactura

Close union or connection of parts; manner of joining; construction.

[Obs.]

“With comely compass and compacture strong.”

Spenser.

Noun.

Close union or connection of parts; structure well connected; manner of joining.

compacture ‎(uncountable)

(obsolete) The fact of being closely put together; compact nature or structure.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ix:
  ouer it a faire Portcullis hong, / Which to the gate directly did incline, / With comely compasse, and compacture strong [...].

compactūre