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Definition of Contextures
1. contexture [n] - See also: contexture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contextures
Literary usage of Contextures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... yet ought it not to eeem a jot strange if atoms, by motion, making all possible
combinations and contextures, and trying all manner of conclusions and ..."
2. New Essays Concerning Human Understanding by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Carl Immanuel Gerhardt (1916)
"The salts, the minerals, and the metals may be of this nature, ie simple contextures
or masses in which there is a certain regularity. ..."
3. The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New by Emanuel Swedenborg, Taylor Gilman Worcester (1875)
"... and also with a little heart, pulmonary tubes, little viscera and brains ;
and that these are contextures of the purest things in nature, and that those ..."
4. Writings of Swedenborg: Containing the Following Treatises, Viz. The Last by Emanuel Swedenborg (1841)
"... all these, both the latter and the former, are mere contextures of fibres and
nerves, flowing forth from each brain and from the spinal marrow; ..."
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