castellate

Adjective

castellate (comparative more castellate, superlative most castellate)

1. (rare) castle-like: built or shaped like a castle.
   • ...The living porphyry, in towers around
     Grotesquely castellate...1830, William Phillips, Mt. Sinai, i.212
2. (rare) Castled: having or furnished with castles.
   • ...Heights castellate...1864, Benjamin Disraeli, Revolutionary Epick, ii.xix.103
3. (rare) Housed or kept in a castle.

   Synonyms:

   castle, incastellated

Verb

IPA/ˈkastəleɪt/

castellate (third-person singular simple present castellates, present participle castellating, simple past and past participle castellated)

1. (transitive) To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or to add battlements to an existing building.
   • The citizen who castellates a Villa at Richmond...1840, Henry Taylor, chapter XX, in Autobiography, volume I, page 321

   Synonyms:

   castle, incastle, encastle, incastellate, encastellate, fortify

2. (intransitive, rare) To take the form of a castle.
   • ...Clouds slowly castellating in a calm...1831, Unimore, John Wilson, i.77

Noun

castellate (plural castellates)

1. (historical, obsolete, rare) The district of a castle.
   • In the Castellate of Roger of Poictou...1809, William Bawdwen translating the Domesday Book, p. 230

   Synonyms:

   castellany, castlery