Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being compacted or firmly and closely bound together; closeness and firmness of parts; compactness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A state of being compact.
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- noun The state or quality of being
compacted .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The one is of ivory, which letteth in confused, doubtful, and uncertain dreams; for through ivory, how small and slender soever it be, we can see nothing, the density, opacity, and close compactedness of its material parts hindering the penetration of the visual rays and the reception of the specieses of such things as are visible.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The one is of ivory, which letteth in confused, doubtful, and uncertain dreams; for through ivory, how small and slender soever it be, we can see nothing, the density, opacity, and close compactedness of its material parts hindering the penetration of the visual rays and the reception of the specieses of such things as are visible.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The one is of ivory, which letteth in confused, doubtful, and uncertain dreams; for through ivory, how small and slender soever it be, we can see nothing, the density, opacity, and close compactedness of its material parts hindering the penetration of the visual rays and the reception of the specieses of such things as are visible.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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You may begin at a very early time to develop, even from the primitive quality of self-love, a notion of equity and a respect for it, but the vast conception of social justice can only find room in a character that has been made spacious by habitual contemplation of the height and breadth and close compactedness of the fabric of the relations that bind man to man, and of the share, integral or infinitesimally fractional, that each has in the happiness or woe of other souls.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880
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The same reported of the _cornus femina_, or wild cornel; which is like the former for compactedness, and made use of for cart-timber, and other rustick instruments; besides, for the best of butchers skewers, tooth-pickers, and in some countries abroad they decoct the berries, which press’d, yield an oyl for the lamp.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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