contexture (kontekstur)

[F.contexture =Sp. Pg. contextura = It. contestura, A perfect continuance or contexture of the thread of the narration. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 126. 2. The manner of interweaving several parts into one body; the disposition and union of the constituent parts of a thing with respect to one another; composition of parts; constitution; complication. The first doctrine is touching the contexture or configuration of things. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. 161. Pray let's now rest ourselves in this sweet shady arbour, which nature herself has woven with her own fine fingers; 'tis such a contexture of woodbines, sweetbrier, jasmine, and myrtle. I. Walton , Complete Angler, p. 207. View his whole life; 'tis nothing but a cunning contex ture of dark arts and unequitable subterfuges. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, ii. 17. Sella hung the slippers in the porch Of that broad rustic lodge, and all who pa ed Admired their fair contexture , 31. Context. Bryant, Sella. In a contexture , where one part does not always depend upon another, there it is not always very probable to expound Scripture, and take its meaning by its proportion to the neighbouring words. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 330. 4. In Scots law, a mode of industrial acce ion, arising when material, as wool or yarn, belonging to one person is woven into cloth belonging to another, and is carried therewith as ac contexture ce ory. In principle it is similar to construc ture (which see).