contexture

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We are all framed of flaps and patches, and of so shapeless and diverse a contexture, that every piece and every moment playeth his part.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017

Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, and your suspending clauses are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

And in this sense and acceptation of the words, the natural frame and contexture doth well and pregnantly administer unto us.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John

It was of a loose watrish contexture, such an one, as he had seen growing out of rotten wood.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

These threads that compose this fine contexture, though they are as small as those that constitute the finer sorts of Silks, have notwithstanding nothing of their glossie, pleasant, and lively reflection.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert