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historiated

historiated adjective: adorned with decorative pictures that tell a story.

Adjective

historiated (comparative more historiated, superlative most historiated)

  1. Adorned with decorative pictures that tell a story.
    • It is difficult to imagine that Bernard of Clairvaux was gullible enough to accept dozens of historiated windows, grisaille fields of griffins, mosaic pavements, carved acanthus capitals, inhabited vine columns, and golden altarware on the strength of the justifications offered by a single window...1994 March, R Ousterhout, “Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, an Annotated Bibliography and Historiography by W. Eugene Kleinbauer”, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians...
    • In Norwich Cathedral there are over 1000 stone roof bosses. Of these about 700 are historiated, that is they either tell a story in themselves or are part of a story told in a sequence of bosses.1996, Ian Atherton, Norwich Cathedral: Church, City, and Diocese, 1096-1996, page 363

Forms of historiated

comparativemore historiated
superlativemost historiated

Questions about historiated

What does historiated mean?
Historiated means adorned with decorative pictures that tell a story.
What part of speech is historiated?
Historiated is an adjective.

Words near historiated in the dictionary

  1. historianess
  2. historianesses
  3. historians
  4. historiaster
  5. historiasters
  6. historiated
  7. historic
  8. historic counties
  9. historic county
  10. historic criticism
  11. historic district

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