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grouped, ppl. a.|gruːpt| [f. group v. + -ed1.] Arranged or situated in a group or groups, clustered; said both of material and immaterial things. grouped column, grouped pillar, etc. (see quots. and group n. 1 c). grouped rates = group rates (see group n. 6).
1702W. J. Bruyn's Voy. Levant liv. 209 By Grouped Pillars are to be understood those large ones composed of several other small ones, which are united to each other, or rather one Massy Pillar, which in appearance seems to have the others fastned to it. 1770Foote Lame Lover Prol., Wks. 1799 II. 53 If the group'd figures false connexions show. 1805–17R. Jameson Char. Min. (ed. 3) 176 Another accident, extremely common, is the manner in which grouped crystals are inserted into each other. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. i. §28 Perhaps two or three pine trunks, used for a single pillar, gave the first idea of the grouped shaft. 1859Gwilt Archit. (ed. 4) Gloss., Grouped Columns or Pilasters, a term used to denote three, four or more columns placed upon the same pedestal. 1875Whitney Life Lang. ii. 24 The non-identity and incommensurability of its shaped and grouped ideas. 1890Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. 20 The three parts of ‘The Parish Register’, the twenty-four Letters of ‘The Borough’, some of which have single, and others grouped subjects. 1897Daily News 21 May 8/4 Through grouped rates from Paddington and its group of stations to Southampton Town, Southampton West, and adjacent places on the South Western line. 1899J. Hutchinson Archives Surg. X. 182 They are a form of grouped papillomata. |