extruct
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From Latin extructus, exstructus, past participle of extruere, exstruere (“to build up”), from ex (“out”) + struere (“to build”).
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extruct (third-person singular simple present extructs, present participle extructing, simple past and past participle extructed)
- (obsolete) To construct.
- a. 1763, John Byrom, Critical Remarks in English and Latin, upon several Passages in Horace:
- These high extructed Spires he writ / That mortal Deltius must quit.