ppl. a. [f. L. fornicāt-us (see FORNICATE a.) + -ED1.] Arched, bending over; esp. in Bot. of a leaf, etc.
1750. G. Hughes, Barbadoes, 218. The Stylus, which these Leaves inclose, is divided at the Top into three fornicated Branches.
¶ With word-play on FORNICATE v.
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., II. iii. (1851), 173. [She] gives up her body to a mercenary whordome under those fornicated arches which she cals Gods house.
