configuration

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONFIGURA'TION, noun [Latin] 1. External form, figure, shape; the figure which bounds a body, and gives it its external appearance, constituting one of the principal differences between bodies. 2. Aspects of the planets; or the face of the horoscope, according to the aspects of the planets toward each other at any time. 3. Resemblance of one figure to another.
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