To heape togither, or one thing vpon an other: to build: to frame: to make. Construere & recondere res magnificas, Cic. Acerui nummorum construuntur apud eum. Cic. Are layde vp togither: o he hath gathered togither. Construere. Cic. To make: to build. Aggerem construere. Lucan. To make a bulwarke, countermure, or a causey. Cubilia sibi nidósque aues construunt. Cic. Make neastes. Delubra construere. Cic. To build. Fauos. Plin. Nauem & ædificium. Cic. Fingere & construere nidos. Cic. Vias. Lucan. To make bridges to passe by. Vocabula rerum. Cic. To make new wordes.

I. To heap, bring, or gather together, to heap or pile up (class.): acervos nummorum apud aliquem, Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 97; cf.: omnibus rebus et modis constructā et coacervatā pecuniā, id. Agr. 1, 5, 14; and acervum, Hor. S. 1, 1, 44: divitias, id. ib. 2, 3, 96: carros, to make a barricade, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 195, 29: has omnes multas magnificasque res, Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 161; cf.: copiam ornamentorum uno in loco, id. ib. 162: super prela congeriem, Plin. 18, 31, 74, 318.—

II. (Like compono, II.) To make by piling up, to make, fabricate, construct, build (class.; most freq. in Cic.).

A. In gen.: construere atque aedificare mundum, Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 19: ut navem, ut aedificium idem destruit facillime qui construxit, id. Sen. 20, 72; cf. delubra, id. Leg. 2, 8, 19: arces, Sil. 8, 145: sepulcrum saxo quadrato, Liv. 1, 26, 14; cf.: horrea saxeo muro constructa, Suet. Ner. 38; and: pilam saxeam magnis molibus, Verg. A. 9, 712: cubilia sibi nidosque (aves), Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129; cf. nidos, id. de Or. 2, 6, 23; and: nidum sibi, Ov. M. 15, 397: dentibus in ore constructis manditur cibus, arranged, Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 134: large multiplici constructae sunt dape mensae, furnished, Cat. 64, 304.—

B. Esp., in gram. lang., to connect grammatically, construct, Prisc. p. 1099 sq. P. et saep.