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pinnacled, ppl. a.|ˈpɪnək(ə)ld|
[f. pinnacle n. and v. + -ed.]
1. Having a pinnacle or pinnacles; furnished with pinnacles or peaks.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 207 A pyȝt coroune..Hiȝe pynakled of cler quyt perle. c1503in Chron. Lond. (ed. Kingsford, 1905) 250 The coveryng [of a Chapell]..paynted wt Azur, and pynacled wt Corven werk paynted and gilt. 1782Warton Hist. Kiddington 8 The pediment of the southern Transept is pinnacled..with a flourished Cross. 1829D. Conway Norway 61 The rocks rose in pinnacled confusion. 1849Freeman Archit. ii. i. xii. 239 The use of the embattled and pinnacled tower is..one of our many insular peculiarities.
2. Elevated on or as on a pinnacle.
1863W. M. Rossetti in Reader, His pinnacled supremacy as the poet and autocrat of landscape-painting. 1897Westm. Gaz. 19 Oct. 2/1 Because of this pinnacled position, they assimilate like lightning. |