Compage - What does it mean?
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(obsolete) Compages; consistency, solid structure; the compaction of parts into a whole.
* 1658': Common Tombs preserve not beyond powder: A firmer consistence and '''compage of parts might be expected from Arefaction, deep buriall or charcoal. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 31)
(obsolete) A compages; a unified complex whole formed from the compaction of parts.
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The difference between compage and is: