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Definition of Machicolate
1. Verb. Supply with projecting galleries. "Machicolate the castle walls"
Generic synonyms: Furnish, Provide, Render, Supply
Derivative terms: Machicolation
Definition of Machicolate
1. Verb. To furnish with machicolations. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Machicolate
Literary usage of Machicolate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Same as Machiavellianism. machicolate (mä-chik'ö-lät), vt ; prêt, ... see machicolate.]
1. In medieval arch., an opening in the vault of a portal or passage ..."
2. Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of by Sussex Archaeological Society (1865)
"... and to make a park of them ; also to crenellate, turret, embattle, and
machicolate Amberley and other manors of the Bishop. » Lambeth Pal. Lib. ..."
3. Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England by Great Britain Privy Council, Great Britain Record Commission (1835)
"... of that place, were authorized, in June in this year, to enclose the town with
walls, which they were permitted to embattle and machicolate, on account ..."
4. Poets' Country by John Churton Collins, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, William John Loftie, Michael MacMillan (1907)
"Salisbury Cathedral or Westminster Hall had not been obliged to crenellate and
machicolate, to reckon with gunpowder and cannon-balls, what might they not ..."
5. Memoir of Mary Anna Longstreth by Margaret] [Newlin, Helen Wilhelmina Ludlow, . (1885)
"The machicolate towers and battlements look grimly conscious of the tragedy; the
little party shudder at the sight of them, but the haze of centuries is ..."
6. The Anniversary: Or Poetry and Prose for MDCCCXXIX by Allan Cunningham (1829)
"... alias zigzagged, gables to the eye ; a myriad of indentations and parapets
and machicolate.d eaves; most fantastic waterspouts; labelled windows, ..."
7. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1876)
"The licenses, as quoted in Parker's Domestic Architecture, give a power to
embattle, kernel, and machicolate. This refers to the indented parapet; ..."
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