ppl. a. [f. med.L. castellāt-us (see above) + -ED. (Earlier than the vb.)]
1. Built like a castle; having battlements.
1679. Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 448. A Castellated mansion.
1829. J. Hodgson, in J. Raine, Mem. (1858), II. 165. Large additions … in the castellated style.
1844. Disraeli, Coningsby, II. IV. v. 58 (L.). It was a castellated building, immense and magnificent.
1860. Hawthorne, Marb. Faun (1878), II. xv. 173. On the top of Hadrian’s castellated tomb.
b. transf. Formed like a castle, castle-like.
1762–71. H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1786), IV. 140. Rocks and precipices and castellated mountains.
1839–40. W. Irving, Wolfert’s R. (1855), 271. Stately dames, with castellated locks and towering plumes.
1865. Livingstone, Zambesi, vii. 171. The somewhat conical shape of Zakavuma … and the more castellated form of Morumbwa.
† 2. ‘Inclosed within a building, as a fountain or cistern.’ Obs. (cf. L. castellum reservoir for water.]
1720. Stow’s Surv. (ed. Strype, 1754), I. I. v. 26/1. The first cistern of Lead castellated with stone in the city of London was called the great conduit in West cheap. Ibid., II. viii. 459/2. A fair Conduit of sweet water Castellated in the midst of that Ward and street.
1766. Entick, London, IV. 66. It [a conduit] was castellated with stone and cisterned with lead.
3. Furnished or dotted with castles, ‘castled.’
1808. R. K. Porter, Trav. Sk. Russia & Swed. (1809), I. iv. 30. This castellated island.
1823. Byron, Juan, X. lxi. The castellated Rhine.
1862. S. Lucas, Secularia, 78. History, like the Rhine, passes through a castellated region.
4. Lodged or ensconced in a castle. rare.
1837. Landor, Wks. (1846), II. 317. His unbiassed justice … struck horror into the heart of every castellated felon.
