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peninsulate, v.|pɪˈnɪnsjʊleɪt|
[f. peninsula + -ate3 7; after insulate.]
trans. To make into a peninsula; to surround (a piece of land) almost completely, as water; to divide into peninsulas.
1538Leland Itin. II. 52 Newton Water and Avon ren so nere togither in the botom of the West Suburbe of Malmesbyri, that there within a Burbolt-shot the Toun is peninsulatid. 1774Pennant Tour Scot. in 1772, 22 A detached tract peninsulated by sea, lake or river. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 534 There are six considerable rivers which, with their numerous branches, peninsulate the whole state. 1902W. Crossing in Devon N. & Q. July 98 The tongue of land..peninsulated by the Swincombe river and the West Dart.
fig.1809–10Coleridge Friend (1866) 338 The..stream may..appear to comprehend and inisle some particular department of knowledge which even then it only peninsulates.
Hence peˈninsulated ppl. a.
1781Wyndham Tour (ed. 2) 36 The bold craggy shore, and the broken peninsulated knoles. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 53 The coast of Caernarvonshire, southward from Menai Straits, is formed by the peninsulated hundred of Lleyn. 1870W. Chambers Winter. Mentone i. 16 The picturesquely peninsulated shores of the Mediterranean. |