a. rare–1. [f. TESSERA + -ATE2. Cf. obs. F. tesseré (Cotgr.).] = TESSELLATED. So Tesserated a. rare. ? Obs.
1717. Tabor, in Phil. Trans., XXX. 549. A Description of the tesserated Pavement at East Bourne, near Pevensey.
1812. Hobhouse, Journ., I. (1813), 969. The tesserated mosaic [in S. Sophia’s] with which the concave above the windows and the dome are encrusted.
1897. F. Thompson, New Poems, 139. With the gold-tesserate floors of Jove.
