castellate

castellate

English

Etymology 1

From Mediaeval Latin castellātus (“fortified, castellate”), from castellum (“little fortification, castle”) + -ātus (“-ate: forming adjectives”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkastələt/

Noun

castellate (plural castellates)

1. (historical, rare, obsolete) The district of a castle.
   • 1809, William Bawdwen translating the Domesday Book, p. 230:

     In the Castellate of Roger of Poictou...

Synonyms

• castellany

Adjective

castellate (comparative more castellate, superlative most castellate)

1. (rare) Castle-like: built or shaped like a castle.
   • 1830, William Phillips, Mt. Sinai, i.212:

     ...The living porphyry, in towers around
     Grotesquely castellate...

2. (rare) Castled: having or furnished with castles.
   • 1864, Benjamin Disraeli, Revolutionary Epick, ii.xix.103:

     ...Heights castellate...

3. (rare) Housed or kept in a castle.

Synonyms

• (made into a castle): See fortified
• (furnished with castles): See fortified
• (housed in a castle): castle, incastellated

Etymology 2

From Mediaeval Latin castellāre (“fortify”) + -ate (“forming verbs”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkastəleɪt/

Verb

castellate (third-person singular simple present castellates, present participle castellating, simple past and past participle castellated)

1. (transitive) To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or to add battlements to an existing building.
   • 1840, Henry Taylor, Autobiography, Vol. I, Ch. xx, p. 321:

     The citizen who castellates a Villa at Richmond...

2. (intransitive, rare) To take the form of a castle.
   • 1831, John Wilson, Unimore, i.77:

     ...Clouds slowly castellating in a calm...

Synonyms

• castle, incastle, encastle, incastellate, encastellate, fortify

Related terms

• castellation

References

• "↑ 'castellate, n.", "'castellate, adj.", "castellate, v.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.