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noun

Configuration n.

Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing; shape; figure. "It is the variety of configurations (of the mouth)... which gives birth and origin to the several vowels."

(Astrol.) Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time. "They (astrologers) undertook... to determine the course of a man's character and life from the configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to go to Reims and take the King to his anointing.[1315] She did not stay to consider whether it would be better to wage war in Champagne than in Normandy. She did not know enough of the configuration of the country to decide such a question, and it is not likely that her saints and angels knew more of geography than she did. She was in haste to take the King to Reims for his anointing, because she believed it impossible ...

— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France

... continental Portugal was divided for administrative purposes into six provinces, delimited in a large measure in accordance with the physical configuration of the country. In 1836 the province ceased to be an administrative unit and, after a period of readjustment, there was established by law of March 18, 1842, an administrative hierarchy which in its more ...

— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg

... Portland was at this period singularly sharp and rugged. Nothing remains at this date of its past configuration. Since the idea of manufacturing Portland stone into Roman cement was first seized, the whole rock has been subjected to an alteration which has completely changed its original appearance. Calcareous lias, slate, and trap are still to be found ...

— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo

... that our instincts and consciousness dwell in the "sensory ganglia," that "an idea is a contradiction, a motion, a configuration of the intermediate organ of sense," that "memory is the organic registration of their effects of impressions," and that the "cerebrum" is the seat of ideas, the home of thought and reason. But when "grey-matter" that composes this thinking mechanism becomes diseased, and the ...

— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

... city of Sirmium on the Save, the ruins of which may still be seen about eighty miles west of Belgrade, had once belonged to the Western Empire and had been rightly looked upon as one of the bulwarks of Italy. To anyone who studies the configuration of the great Alpine chain, which parts off the Italian peninsula from the rest of Europe, it will be manifest that it is in the north-east that that mountain barrier is the weakest. The Maritime, Pennine, and Cottian Alps, which soar above the ...

— Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation • Thomas Hodgkin

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