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pillared, ppl. a.|ˈpɪləd|
[f. pillar + -ed.]
1. a. Having, supported on or by, or furnished with a pillar or pillars. Also fig.
c1394P. Pl. Crede 192 Þanne kam I to þat cloister & gaped abouten Whouȝ it was pilered and peynt & portred well clene. 1634Milton Comus 598 If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rott'nness, And earths base built on stubble. 1726Pope Odyss. xvii. 36 He props his spear against the pillar'd wall. 1814Wordsw. Excursion viii. 471 The pillared porch, elaborately embossed. 1924R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin i. 16 In that pillared temple grew a heart. 1924E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty iii. 21 That pillared avenue Of tall clear-fruited ripe trees. 1953E. M. Forster Hill of Devi 129 One passes through a pillared hall on to a terrace. 1961N.Y. Times 3 July 13 The many country mansions..that dot the environs of Vicenza. How far that pedimented and pillared style has shed its influence Mr. Sansom reminds us. 1978Morecambe Guardian 14 Mar. 23/1 (Advt.), The accommodation provides: pillared porch, hall, lounge, [etc.].
b. Borne on stalks, stalked.
1871Darwin Desc. Man I. x. 341 In one of the Ephemerae, namely Chloëon, the male has great pillared eyes.
2. Fashioned into or like a pillar or pillars. Also fig.
1698Molyneux in Phil. Trans. XX. 221 A sort of Pillard Stone in Misnia near Dresden. 1727Thomson Summer 60 Of growling Hills, that shoot the pillar'd Flame. 1738H. Brooke Tasso's Jerus. Del. iii. 16 Where the fair Head and pillar'd Neck were knit. 1808Scott Marm. v. xxv, Dun-Edin's cross, a pillar'd stone, Rose on a turret octagon. 1864Tennyson Voyage in En. Ard. 145 How oft we saw the Sun retire, And burn the threshold of the night, Fall from his Ocean-lane of fire, And sleep beneath his pillar'd light! 1887Times (weekly ed.) 21 Oct. 3/3 A background of..pillared basalt. 1924R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin iii. 45 Thick mælstroms propped the dense and sagging shades With pillared thunder. 1929R. Graves Poems 20 True to the eagle nose, the pillared neck, (Missed by the intervening generation). |