castellated

English edit

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.

castellated (not comparable)

Castle-like: built or shaped like a castle.
- 1686, Robert Plot, chapter X, in The Natural History of Stafford-shire, page 448:
  ...A Castellated mansion...
- 2004, Colm Toibin, The Master, page 2:
  Finally he walked slowly into a vast Italian space, with towers and castellated roofs, and a sky the colour of dark blue ink, smooth and consistent.
- 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 46:
  Three castellated (with battlements) towers stand sentry here, with one being particularly large. This is said to have been used by Rhodes as a belvedere, and (according to some sources) by railway staff for some time after opening.
(engineering) Having grooves or recesses on an upper face.
- 1904, Alexander Bell Filson Young, chapter IV, in The Complete Motorist, page 74:
  Castellated nuts are used throughout, with split pins.
Castled: having or furnished with castles.
- 1809, Robert Ker Porter, chapter IV, in Travelling Sketches in Russia & Sweden, volume I, page 30:
  ...This castellated island...
(rare) Housed or kept in a castle.
- 1837, Walter Savage Landor, Works, volume II, page 317:
  His unbiassed justice... struck horror into the heart of every castellated felon.

castellated (not comparable)

(obsolete) Synonym of enclosed, when used for fountains, cisterns, &c.
- 1598, John Stow, A Suruay of London, page 149:
  A fayre Conduite of sweete water, castellated in the middest of that warde and streete...

"castellated, adj.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press