[f. L. stem construct- + -URE, on analogy of structure. OF. also had constructure (rare).]
† 1. Construction, structure. Obs.
1620–55. I. Jones, Stone-Heng (1725), 38. The whole Constructure being circular in Form.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 78. Nature’s variety in the constructure and conformation of so excellent an Organ [the Eye].
1710. Brit. Apollo, III. 92. The Constructure of my Body.
1712. Blackmore, Creation, I. (ed. 4), 19. Ye sons of art, one curious piece devise, From whose constructure motion shall arise.
1840. Acolas, 32. All the inferences deducible from this constructure will present themselves readily as soon as required.
b. fig.
1622. R. Preston, Godly Mans Inqvis., i. 1. They well resemble that excellent constructure of our SAVIOVR, laid downe in his Gospell by Mathew: Seeke first the kingdome of God, &c.
2. Sc. Law. A mode of industrial accession, whereby if a house be repaired with the materials of another, the materials accrue to the owner of the house, full reparation, however, being due to their owner. (W. Bell, Dict. Law Scot.)
