contignations

Buildings stand by the benefit of their foundations that sustain and support them, and of their buttresses that comprehend and embrace them, and of their contignations that knit and unite them.

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601

The Chaldee paraphrase translates it cedar, or as Junius and Tremellius, _cedrelaten_, a species between fir and cedar: Munster contends for the pine, and divers able divines endeavour to prove it cypress; and besides, ’tis known, that in Crete they employ’d it for the same use in the largest contignations, and did formerly build ships of it: And Epiphanius Hæres, l.

Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663

But of this building, the foundation, the buttresses, the contignations, are in this part of the verse which constitutes our text, and in the three divers acceptations of the words amongst our expositors: _Unto God the Lord belong the issues from death_, for, first, the foundation of this building (that our God is the

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601