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  1. Woven; formed into texture. [Rare.] A garment of Flesh (or of senses) contextured in the loom of Heaven. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, i. 10.

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  • Round his mysterious ME, there lies, under all those wool-rags, a Garment of Flesh (or of Senses), contextured in the Loom of Heaven; whereby he is revealed to his like, and dwells with them in UNION and DIVISION; and sees and fashions for himself a Universe, with azure Starry Spaces, and long Thousands of —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
 

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