octangularadj.
/ɒkˈtaŋɡjᵿlə/, U.S. /ɑkˈtæŋɡjələr/ Having eight angles, octagonal.
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octagonal1571
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > two-dimensional > octagonal
eight-squarea1552
octagonal1571
octagonian1598
octangle1613
octangular1649
octagon1679
1649 Perfect Diurnall No. 321. 2792 The faire Architecture of that proud Octangular building.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 189 A Cabinet of an octangular forme.
1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 346 The church is very lofty, and cealed with Irish oak, neatly wrought; the body is one hundred foot wide; the steeple is a tower of two hundred eighty five foot high, octangular towards the top.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 27 An octangular bowling-green.
1798 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 88 181 I now proceed to the examination of the standard rod of Henry VII. which is an octangular brass bar.
1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. iv. 159 An octangular vase of brass.
1839 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 2 15 It [sc. the chapel] has octangular turrets at the four corners.
1877 W. Jones Finger-ring Lore 147 An octangular ring of iron.
1902 Proc. Royal Soc. 71 285 With an octangular plate an eight-rayed star if formed.
1958 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 85 332 He gives them [sc. spores] as obscurely angular (subtly octangular) in outline.
1995 Midwest Home & Design Spring 18/1 The Minneapolis designer thinks about shaping cocowood.., stone, shell, porcelain, and recycled paper into square, oval, triangular, and octangular boxes.
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Octangularness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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