[ad. L. compāginātiōn-em, n. of action f. compāginā-re: see prec. and -TION.] The action of compaginating; a compaginated condition or structure.
1646. Brinsley, Araignment, 64. The word [καταρτισμένοι] properly signifieth Compagination, when the parts of a thing are aptly joyned together.
1650. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep. (ed. 2), 49. The entire or broken compagination of the magneticall fabrick under it.
1655. Jer. Taylor, Unum Necess., V. § 3 (R.). The body of sin, a compagination of many parts and members.
a. 1691. Boyle, Wks., II. 578. (R.). Concerning the unequal compagination of icy islands.
1843. W. Noble, Swedenborg’s Heav. & Hell (1851), 85. The nervous fibres, by compagination of which all the parts … are formed.
1883. Contemp. Rev., June, 824. The compagination of that miraculous structure, the human body.
