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machicolated

machicolated adjective: having machicolations. Also the simple past and past participle of machicolate.

Adjective

machicolated (comparative more machicolated, superlative most machicolated)

  1. Having machicolations.
    • […] Arthur with a hundred spears / Rode far, till o'er the illimitable reed, / And many a glancing plash and sallowy isle, / The wide-wing'd sunset of the misty marsh / Glared on a huge machicolated tower […]1875, Alfred Tennyson, “The Last Tournament”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VII), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 51
    • Of the outer fortifications there remains a brick gateway, with Gothic arch carrying a high machicolated tower, connected to which is a fragment of the wall.1893, Edward Harrison Barker, Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine

Also used as

machicolated is also the simple past and past participle of machicolate.

Antonyms of machicolated

Forms of machicolated

comparativemore machicolated
superlativemost machicolated
alternative form (rare)machiolate

Origin of machicolated

From Latin machicol- (in machicolāmentum, etc.) + -ated.

From machicolate + -ed.

Questions about machicolated

What does machicolated mean?
Machicolated means having machicolations.
What part of speech is machicolated?
Machicolated is an adjective.

Words near machicolated in the dictionary

  1. machiavellizes
  2. machiavellizing
  3. Machiavels
  4. machicolade
  5. machicolate
  6. machicolated
  7. machicolates
  8. machicolating
  9. machicolation
  10. machicolations
  11. machicotage

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