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VAULTEDLY.
ijji HoLOET, Vaulted rowffe, itstudinaium ttcium.
1579-80 North Plutarch^ Lycurgus (1895) I. 126 The fayer
embowed or vawted roofes. or . . fretised seelings. 1635 Swan
S^c. -V. iv. § r ^1643) 54 The world being mans house, the
Firmament is as the vaulted roof of it. 1^7 Dryden Vhg.
Gtorg, IV. 536 Now to the Court arriv'd, th' admiring Son
Beholds the vaulted Roofs of Pory Stone. 1703 Rows
Ulysses tit. i. Raging Mirth With peals of Clamour shakes
the \-auIted Roof. 1789 Smyth u. AidncKs Archit, (1818)
lis Terms applied without distinction to all raulted ceilings
whate\-cr. 1844 ^* ^* '^^ Lisle in E. Purcell Life {1900J I.
vii, 12a It contains fine stained glass, and a ^•aulled ceiling
fainted with scmi-Gothick patterns. 1879 Dixon Windsor
11. xii. 100 A vaulted arch supported an upper chamber.
0, Of the sky. (Cf. Vault sby i c.)
CIS90 MoNTGOMERiK SoHUits Ivi, Vnderncth the hcumly
vauted round. «S9S Spenser Cot. Clout 611 The fume..
mounts fro thence In rolling globes vp to the vauted skies.
1611 Shaks. Cymb. I. vi. 33 Hath Nature giucn them eyes
To see this vaulted Arch, and the rich Crop Of Sea and
Land? 1700 Drvden /^a/. Sf Arc.wx. 524 The vauhed Fii mament
With loud Acclaims, and vast Applause is rent, a 1763
Shesstone Elegies vi. 26 Pale Cynthia mounts the vaulted
sky. 1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 97 K temple, one not made
with hands. The vaulted firmament. 1871 B. Taylor Famt
(1875) !• "• 4* Lost in the vaulted azure The lark sends down
his flickering lay.
d. In miscellaneous uses.
xtfSi Grew Musatum i. vi. i. 140 The Vaulted- Limpet.
PaJella coticamerata. 1793 M artvn Lang. Bot, s.v., Vaulted,
/oriiicatus; arched. 179(5 Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3)
III. 514 Blosstom] upper lip vaulted. i8a8 Stark Eten/,
Nat. Hist. IL 47 Umbilicus large, armed with smalt vaulted
scales. 184a Prichard Xat. Hist. Man 47 Wild horses have
larger heads than domestic horses, with more vaulted forebeads.
1858 Birch Anc. Pottery IL 75 A vase, .havin? a
vaulted cover. 1870 Rolleston /i«iw. Li/e p. Ivi, The skull
[in reptiles] is less vaulted and less capacious than in Aves.
2. Constructed or furnished with an arched roof
covered in or roofed by a vault.
1601 Holland Pliny IL 243 The artificiall baines and
vaulted stouves and hot houses, which then were newly come
vp. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple 1st. v. H, This vaulted Tower's
half built of massie stone. 1687 A. Lovei.l tr. T/ievenot's
Tr/tT'. H. 26 In this Court there are Lodging- rooms under a
vaulted Gallery that runs all round it. 1717 Berkeley jfr/il.
'Pour Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 520 Below stairs we saw several
vaulted chambers. 1794 Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udoipho
xxxi, I have only to go.. along the vaulted passage and
across the great hall. 1830 Whewell Archit. Notes 5 In a
vaulted church, we have in general one vault which runs
longitudinally along the church. 1865 W. G. Palgrave
Arabia IL 320 The heavy winter rains supply the vaulted
cisterns. rti878 Sir G. Scott Led, Archit. (1879) '•247
Viollet le Due says, the design for a vaulted building has
to be commenced at the top and worked downw.irds.
trans/. 1730-46 Thomson Autumn 78 To dig the mineral
from the vaulted earth, 1810 Shelley Prometh. Unb. \\. v,
104 A paradiseof vaulted bowers. 1878 B. Taylor Dcuknlion
I. i. 15 At the bases of the mountain's lofty vaulted entrances
of caverns.
3. Immured as in a vault,
1863 R. S. Hawker in Li/e xx. (1905) 450 Very few could
stand this vaulted life of mine.
Hence Vau'ltedly iJ