ppl. a. [f. FASCIATE v. + -ED1. Cf. Fr. fascié.]

1

  1.  Bot. See quot. 1835.

2

1835.  Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), II. 382. Fasciated [is] when several contiguous parts grow unnaturally together into one.

3

1858.  Darwin, Anim. & Pl., I. x. 365. The flower-stem [of the Cockscomb] is wonderfully ‘fasciated’ or compressed.

4

  b.  Crystallog. Massed together.

5

1811.  Pinkerton, Petral., II. 133. In very small crystals, elegantly fasciated in various directions.

6

  † 2.  Of a roof: Coved on two opposite sides only: see FASCIA 2 b. Obs.

7

1715.  Leoni, Palladio’s Archit. (1721), I. 79. The Arches of the … Rooms near the Galleries, are fasciated.

8

  3.  Marked with bands or stripes; striped.

9

1752.  Sir J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 152. The bluish, fasciated Porcellana.

10

1766.  Pennant, Zool. (1777), IV. 119. Red fasciated with black or white, along the spires. Ibid. (1798), Hindoostan, II. 204. The columns are ribbed and near their tops doubly fasciated.

11

1801.  Latham, Hist. Birds, 2nd Supp. 312. Fasciated Sandpiper.

12