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plicature en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈplɪkət͡ʃə(ɹ)/
• /ˈplɪkətjʊə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Latin plicatura, from plicare (“to fold”).

Meanings

1. (qualifier:archaic outside sciences) A doubling; a fold; a plication.
   • For no man can unfold / The many plicatures ſo cloſely preſt / At loweſt verge. 1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 1, stanza 18, page 5:

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