compacture

English

Etymology

From Latin compactūra.

Noun

compacture (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The fact of being closely put together; compact nature or structure.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     […] ouer it a faire Portcullis hong, / Which to the gate directly did incline, / With comely compasse, and compacture strong […]

Latin

Participle

compactūre

1. vocative masculine singular of compactūrus