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Castellated

//ˈkastəleɪtɪd// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Castle-like: built or shaped like a castle; usually, specifically, having castellations (crenellations).

    "Near-synonym: crenellated"

  2. 2
    Synonym of enclosed, when used for fountains, cisterns, &c. not-comparable, obsolete

    "A fayre Conduite of sweete water, castellated in the middest of that warde and streete..."

  3. 3
    Having grooves or recesses on an upper face.

    "Near-synonym: crenellated"

  4. 4
    Castled: having or furnished with castles.

    "...This castellated island..."

  5. 5
    Housed or kept in a castle. rare

    "His unbiassed justice... struck horror into the heart of every castellated felon."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin castellātus (“fortified, castellate”) + -ed (forming past participles). Equivalent to the past participle of castellate but attested earlier than other uses of the verb.

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin castellum (“cistern”).

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