vaultedadj.

Brit.

/ˈvɔːltᵻd/,

/ˈvɒltᵻd/, U.S.

/ˈvɔltəd/,

/ˈvɑltəd/

Etymology: < vault n.¹

1. Having the form of a vault; arched or rounded.

†a. Of the chin. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > chin > [adjective] > types of

vaultedc1515

runaway1827

chinnya1896

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxlvi. 549 Her skynne was as whyte as y^e floure in the mede,..her throte smoth and clere, her chyne vauted [printed vaunted; Fr. voltis].

b. Of a roof or ceiling, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [adjective] > type of roof

thatched1467

side?a1475

thacked1530

vaulted1552

shingleda1563

slated1611

unshingled1611

high-pitch1614

slate-pointed1648

killesed1649

hipped1663

pantiledc1672

overpitched1677

underpitched1677

low-pitcheda1684

pitched1773

theeked1792

peaked1797

shingle1810

thackless1810

choppered1818

wagon-headed1823

unlathed1854

break-back1856

shingly1857

saddleback1861

scaled1862

gambrelled1863

thatchy1864

weather-slated1870

thatchless1882

weather-tiled1887

monopitch1941

tile-roofed1962

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [adjective] > vaulting > vaulted

embowed1481

vaulted1552

grinded1715

cross-grindedc1720

groined1789

overvaulted1842

cross-vaulted1848

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Vaulted rowffe, testudinatum tectum.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 48 The fayer embowed or vawted roofes, or..fretised seelings.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi iv. §1. 60 The world being mans house, the Firmament is as the vaulted roof of it.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 138 Now to the Court arriv'd, th' admiring Son Beholds the vaulted Roofs of Pory Stone.

1703 N. Rowe Ulysses iii. i Raging Mirth With peals of Clamour shakes the vaulted Roof.

1789 P. Smyth tr. H. Aldrich Archit. (1818) 115 Terms applied without distinction to all vaulted ceilings whatever.

1844 A. P. de Lisle in E. S. Purcell Life & Lett. A. P. de Lisle (1900) I. vii. 122 It contains fine stained glass, and a vaulted ceiling painted with semi-Gothick patterns.

1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor III. xii. 109 A vaulted arch supported an upper chamber.

c. Of the sky. (Cf. vault n.¹ 1c.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [adjective]

heavenisheOE

heavenlyOE

celestialc1400

celestinec1430

supernal?1504

celical1521

elemental1527

ethereal1530

celest1535

impyre1554

skyey1587

vaultedc1590

firmamental1600

empyreal1605

superior1632

firmamentary1633

ethereous1667

skied1789

c1590 A. Montgomerie Sonnets lvi Vnderneth the heuinly vauted round.

1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. D The fume..mounts fro thence In rolling globes vp to the vauted skies.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 34 Hath Nature giuen them eyes To see this vaulted Arch, and the rich Crop Of Sea and Land?

1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 68 The vaulted Firmament With loud Acclaims, and vast Applause is rent.

a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 26 Pale Cynthia mounts the vaulted sky.

1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 97 A temple, one not made with hands, The vaulted firmament.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. ii. 53 Lost in the vaulted azure, The lark sends down his flickering lay.

d. In miscellaneous uses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > like vault or dome

coping1601

oversiling1632

concamerated1666

vaulted1681

testudinated1727

domed1775

testudinal1823

testudinate1847

testudo-shaped1875

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. vi. i. 140 The Vaulted-Limpet. Patella concamerata.

1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. X2^v Vaulted, fornicatus. Arched.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 514 Bloss[om] upper lip vaulted.

1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 47 Umbilicus large, armed with small vaulted scales.

1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 47 Wild horses have larger heads than domestic horses, with more vaulted fore~heads.

1858 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery II. 75 A vase..having a vaulted cover.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life p. lvi The skull [in reptiles] is less vaulted and less capacious than in Aves.

2. Constructed or furnished with an arched roof; covered in or roofed by a vault.

ΚΠ

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 243 The artificiall baines and vaulted stouves and hot houses, which then were newly come vp.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island v. li. 59 This vaulted Tower's half built of massie stone.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 26 In this Court there are Lodging-rooms under a vaulted Gallery that runs all round it.

1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 14 Jan. in Wks. (1955) VII. 251 Below stairs we saw several vaulted chambers.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. vi. 135 I have only to go..along the vaulted passage and across the great hall.

1830 W. Whewell Archit. Notes German Churches 5 In a vaulted church, we have in general one vault which runs longitudinally along the church.

1865 W. G. Palgrave Narr. Journey through Arabia II. 320 The heavy winter rains supply the vaulted cisterns.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 247 Viollet le Duc says, the design for a vaulted building has to be commenced at the top and worked downwards.

in extended use.1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 129 To dig the mineral from the vaulted earth.1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. v. 95 A paradise of vaulted bowers.1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion i. i. 15 At the bases of the mountain's lofty vaulted entrances of caverns.

3. Immured as in a vault.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > [adjective] > restricted in free action

coarctc1420

shackledc1440

coarcteda1500

haltered?1510

catesnd1566

straited1581

immurate1593

chained1613

hampered1633

muzzled1647

throttled1677

tethereda1680

fetlocked1725

strangled1813

trammelled1813

spancelled1835

iron-bound1850

cabined1853

manacled1861

vaulted1863

tied1876

strait-jacketed1894

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective] > restricted or limited > in free action