consarcination
English
Etymology
Latin consarcinare, consarcinatum (“to patch together”).
Noun
consarcination (countable and uncountable, plural consarcinations)
- (obsolete) A patching together; patchwork.
- 1854, The Christian Remembrancer (volume 27, page 254)
- It is one thing to take the text of these documents, and to trace out its consarcinations, interpolations, retrenchments; to ascertain, if it may be, what it was in its earliest form, what the age and history of its several parts […]
- 1856, The Union Quarterly
- Although great proficients in the arts and sciences, the Egyptians were more distinguished for a certain squeamishness of taste, than as gastronomes who could revel in a multiplicity of heterogeneous consarcinations […]
- 1831, James Hogg, Bush Aboon Traquair
- I don't know if there was any great depravity or moral turpitude in the action, supposing it to be true, for argument sake, if the consarcination of their conjugality is taken into account.
- 1854, The Christian Remembrancer (volume 27, page 254)