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▪ I. fastigiate, a.|fæˈstɪdʒɪət|
[f. L. fastīgi-um summit of a gable, top, vertex + -ate2. Cf. F. fastigié.]
1. Sloping up or tapering to a point like a cone or pyramid.
†a. of a hill = fastigiated. Obs.
1662Ray Three Itin. ii. (Ray Soc.) 148 That noted hill..the top whereof is fastigiate like a sugar loaf.
b. Bot. Having flowers or branches whose extremities form a tapering or cone-like outline.
1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 382. 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 252 Fastigiate, when the branches of any plant are pressed close to the main stem, as in the Lombardy poplar. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 349 Taxus fastigiata..(Irish or Florence-court yew) is a fastigiate variety.
c. Entom. Of the elytra: Tapering to a point.
1848in Maunder Treas. Nat. Hist. Gloss.
2.
†a. Bot. Formerly applied (after F. fastigié) in the sense ‘having a horizontal surface at the top’, as in an umbel or corymb. Obs.[The use app. originated in a misunderstanding, the L. fastigium being interpreted as ‘roof’.] 1793in Martyn Lang. Bot. s.v. 1794― Rousseau's Bot. xxviii. 445 The latter tree..having a fastigiate, or flat top. 1860in Mayne Expos. Lex. s.v.
b. Hence, of a zoophyte: = corymbed.
1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 175 Mussa fastigiata. Fastigiate: disks usually nearly circular.
Hence faˈstigiately adv.
1840Paxton Bot. Dict., Fastigiately-branched, the branches becoming gradually shorter from the base to the apex. 1884in Syd. Soc. Lex.
▪ II. fastigiate, v.|fæˈstɪdʒɪeɪt|
[f. as prec. + -ate3.]
trans. To make pointed at the top like a gable. b. intr. To taper to a point.
1656Blount Glossogr., Fastigiate, to raise up, or grow up to a sharp top. 1732in Coles.
Hence faˈstigiated ppl. a., formed like a cone or ridge; ‘roofed, narrowed up to the top’ (Johnson 1773). † fastigiˈation, ‘a making or growing sharp at the top like a pyramid’ (Phillips 1662).
1647H. More Song of Soul Notes 381 Day will hang in the sky many thousand miles off from us, fastigiated into one conicall point. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. v. §4. 146 Hawks..noted for having a fastigiated or rising head. 1730–6in Bailey (folio). 1840in W. Humble Dict. Geol. & Min. |