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castellated, ppl. a.|ˈkæstəleɪtɪd|
[f. med.L. castellāt-us (see above) + -ed. (Earlier than the vb.)]
1. a. Built like a castle; having battlements.
1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 448 A Castellated mansion. 1829J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 165 Large additions..in the castellated style. 1844Disraeli Coningsby iv. v. (L.) It was a castellated building, immense and magnificent. 1860Hawthorne Marb. Faun (1878) II. xv. 173 On the top of Hadrian's castellated tomb.
b. transf. Formed like a castle, castle-like.
1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) IV. 140 Rocks and precipices and castellated mountains. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 271 Stately dames, with castellated locks and towering plumes. 1865Livingstone Zambesi vii. 171 The somewhat conical shape of Zakavuma..and the more castellated form of Morumbwa.
c. transf. Of a nut or disc: having grooves or recesses on its upper face.
1904A. B. F. Young Complete Motorist iv. 74 Castellated nuts are used throughout, with split pins. 1922Times 20 June 8/5 The wheel and consequently the castellated shaft will be rotated.
†2. ‘Inclosed within a building, as a fountain or cistern.’ Obs. [cf. L. castellum reservoir for water.]
1720Stow's Surv. (ed. Strype 1754) I. i. v. 26/1 The first cistern of Lead castellated with stone in the city of London was called the great conduit in West cheap. Ibid. ii. viii. 459/2 A fair Conduit of sweet water Castellated in the midst of that Ward and street. 1766Entick London IV. 66 It [a conduit] was castellated with stone and cisterned with lead.
3. Furnished or dotted with castles, ‘castled’.
1808R. Porter Trav. Sk. Russ. & Swed. (1813) I. iv. 30 This castellated island. 1823Byron Juan x. lxi, The castellated Rhine. 1862S. Lucas Secularia 78 History, like the Rhine, passes through a castellated region.
4. Lodged or ensconced in a castle. rare.
1837Landor Wks. (1846) II. 317 His unbiassed justice..struck horror into the heart of every castellated felon. |