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单词 cantoned
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cantonedadj.

(see the verb.)
Etymology: < canton n.1 canton v. + -ed suffix1.
1. Formed or divided into cantons.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [adjective] > divided into
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cantonné, cantonned, or cantonnized; seuered from the rest of their fellows, and fortified, or quartered apart.
a1649 W. Drummond Skiamachia in Wks. (1711) 195 Conform to the Government of a Republick and Cantoned Towns.
1869 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece II. iii. i. 259 The cantoned associations of Arcadia.
2. Quartered in cantonments.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [adjective] > quartered
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1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 169 The army cantoned in the neighbourhood of Dunkirk.
1875 C. Clery Minor Tactics ii. 20 Troops cantoned in and about the town.
3. Architecture. (See quot.)
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Canton'd, is us'd in Architecture, when the Corner of a Building is adorn'd with..any thing that projects beyond the naked of the Wall.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 943 Cantoned building, one whose angles are decorated with columns, pilasters, rustic quoins, or any thing projecting beyond the naked of the wall.
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4. Heraldry. See canton v. 6.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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