plicature

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɪkət͡ʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈplɪkətjʊə(ɹ)/

Noun

plicature (plural plicatures)

1. (archaic outside sciences) A doubling; a fold; a plication.
   • 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:

     For no man can unfold / The many plicatures ſo cloſely preſt / At loweſt verge.

References

• “plicature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Participle

plicātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of plicātūrus