fascicularadj.
/fəˈsɪkjᵿlə/, U.S. /fəˈsɪkjələr/ a. (See quot.) Obsolete.
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Fascicular, belonging to a bundle or fardel.
1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
b. With allusion to fasces n.
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [adjective] > of or relating to rod or staff
caducean1656
fascial1832
fascicular1866
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > collecting in a bundle > made into bundles
well-trussed1606
bundled1796
fascicular1866
1866 G. A. Sala Trip to Barbary 28 A fascicular bundle of canes of which a Roman lictor might have been proud.
2. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a fascicle.
a. Botany. Also, fascicular tissue, ‘a term which includes all the varieties of cellular tissue of plants which are collected into bundles or fascicles’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon, 1884).
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1840 J. Paxton Pocket Bot. Dict. Fascicular, arranged in bundles or parcels.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 400 Whether the accompanying fibrous strands belong to the ‘fascicular tissue’ or to the ‘ground tissue’.
b. Geology and Mineralogy.
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1816 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 2) 233 Fascicular or scopiform, when the fibres diverge only on one side.
1816 P. Cleaveland Elem. Treat. Mineral. & Geol. 54 The fibres may be..fascicular, like a bundle of rods confined at one extremity.
1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks xii. 237 Confused, fascicular, radiating aggregates.
c. Anatomy.
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1845 R. B. Todd & W. Bowman Physiol. Anat. I. 70 Fascicular flattened bands, more or less expanded.
Derivatives
faˈscicularly adv. in a fascicular manner.
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17.. Kirwan in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict.
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