单词 | castellated |
释义 | castellatedadj. 1. a. Built like a castle; having battlements. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [adjective] > relating to or of nature of castle castellated1686 castellar1789 castled1801 castellate1830 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [adjective] > castellated castellated1686 castled1801 castellate1830 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. x. 448 A Castellated mansion. 1829 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 165 Large additions..in the castellated style. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby II. iv. v. 58 It was a castellated building, immense and magnificent. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. xv. 173 On the top of Hadrian's castellated tomb. b. transferred. Formed like a castle, castle-like. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > collecting into one mass or body > accumulated > heaping > heaped or piled upheapedc1380 heapedc1440 coppeda1552 piled1595 balked1598 up-piled1600 coacervate1626 castellated1780 piled-up1791 castellate1830 banked1838 coacervated1841 pyramided1866 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. iii. 65 Rocks and precipices and castellated mountains. 1839 W. Irving Chron. Wolfert's Roost (1855) 357 Stately dames, with castellated locks and towering plumes! 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi vii. 171 The somewhat conical shape of Zakavuma..and the more castellated form of Morumbwa. c. transferred. Of a nut or disc: having grooves or recesses on its upper face. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [adjective] > nut > types of castellated1904 spanner tight1925 1904 A. B. F. Young Compl. Motorist iv. 74 Castellated nuts are used throughout, with split pins. 1922 Times 20 June 8/5 The wheel and consequently the castellated shaft will be rotated. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [adjective] > relating to cisterns > enclosed within a building castellated1598 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 149 A fayre Conduite of sweete water, castellated in the middest of that warde and streete. 1603 J. Stow Suruay of London (new ed.) 17 The first Cesterne of leade castellated with stone in the Citty of London, was called the great Conduit in west Cheape. 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 66 It [a conduit] was castellated with stone and cisterned with lead. 3. Furnished or dotted with castles, ‘castled’. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [adjective] castleda1661 castellated1809 1809 R. K. Porter Travelling Sketches Russia & Sweden I. iv. 30 This castellated island. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto X lxi. 83 The castellated Rhine. 1862 S. Lucas Secularia 78 History, like the Rhine, passes through a castellated region. 4. Lodged or ensconced in a castle. rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [adjective] > inhabiting house > type of house well-housed1574 cottaged1633 seated1720 castellated1837 1837 W. S. Landor Wks. (1846) II. 317 His unbiassed justice..struck horror into the heart of every castellated felon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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