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vaulted, ppl. a.|ˈvɔːltɪd|
[f. vault n.1 or v.1]
1. Having the form of a vault; arched or rounded.
†a. Of the chin. Obs.—1
a1533Ld. Berners Huon cxlvi. 549 Her skynne was as whyte as y⊇ floure in the mede,..her throte smoth and clere, her chyne vauted [printed vaunted; Fr. voltis].
b. Of a roof or ceiling, etc.
1552Huloet, Vaulted rowffe, testudinatum tectum. 1579–80North Plutarch, Lycurgus (1895) I. 126 The fayer embowed or vawted roofes, or..fretised seelings. 1635Swan Spec. M. iv. §1 (1643) 54 The world being mans house, the Firmament is as the vaulted roof of it. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 536 Now to the Court arriv'd, th' admiring Son Beholds the vaulted Roofs of Pory Stone. 1703Rowe Ulysses iii. i, Raging Mirth With peals of Clamour shakes the vaulted Roof. 1789Smyth tr. Aldrich's Archit. (1818) 115 Terms applied without distinction to all vaulted ceilings whatever. 1844A. P. de Lisle in E. Purcell Life (1900) I. vii. 122 It contains fine stained glass, and a vaulted ceiling painted with semi-Gothick patterns. 1879Dixon Windsor III. xii. 109 A vaulted arch supported an upper chamber.
c. Of the sky. (Cf. vault n.1 1 c.)
c1590Montgomerie Sonnets lvi, Vnderneth the heuinly vauted round. 1595Spenser Col. Clout 611 The fume..mounts fro thence In rolling globes vp to the vauted skies. 1611Shakes. Cymb. i. vi. 33 Hath Nature giuen them eyes To see this vaulted Arch, and the rich Crop Of Sea and Land? 1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. iii. 524 The vaulted Firmament With loud Acclaims, and vast Applause is rent. a1763Shenstone Elegies vi. 26 Pale Cynthia mounts the vaulted sky. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath 97 A temple, one not made with hands, The vaulted firmament. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. ii. 44 Lost in the vaulted azure The lark sends down his flickering lay.
d. In miscellaneous uses.
1681Grew Musæum i. vi. i. 140 The Vaulted-Limpet. Patella concamerata. 1793Martyn Lang. Bot. s.v., Vaulted, fornicatus; arched. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 514 Bloss[om] upper lip vaulted. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 47 Umbilicus large, armed with small vaulted scales. 1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 47 Wild horses have larger heads than domestic horses, with more vaulted fore⁓heads. 1858Birch Anc. Pottery II. 75 A vase..having a vaulted cover. 1870Rolleston Anim. 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.
1601Holland Pliny II. 243 The artificiall baines and vaulted stouves and hot houses, which then were newly come vp. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. v. li, This vaulted Tower's half built of massie stone. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 26 In this Court there are Lodging-rooms under a vaulted Gallery that runs all round it. 1717Berkeley Jrnl. Tour Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 520 Below stairs we saw several vaulted chambers. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxxi, I have only to go..along the vaulted passage and across the great hall. 1830Whewell Archit. Notes 5 In a vaulted church, we have in general one vault which runs longitudinally along the church. 1865W. G. Palgrave Arabia II. 320 The heavy winter rains supply the vaulted cisterns. a1878Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) I. 247 Viollet le Duc says, the design for a vaulted building has to be commenced at the top and worked downwards.
transf.1730–46Thomson Autumn 78 To dig the mineral from the vaulted earth. 1820Shelley Prometh. Unb. ii. v. 104 A paradise of vaulted bowers. 1878B. Taylor Deukalion i. i. 15 At the bases of the mountain's lofty vaulted entrances of caverns.
3. Immured as in a vault.
1863R. S. Hawker in Life xx. (1905) 450 Very few could stand this vaulted life of mine.
Hence ˈvaultedly adv.
1822J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 127 The shell round it being vaultedly convex. |