columned, ppl. a.
(ˈkɒləmd)
[f. column n.]
1. Furnished with columns, supported upon columns; pillared. (Chiefly poet.)
| 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. 132 The column'd pile ascends. 1819 Shelley Ros. & Helen 107 A spring, O'er which the columned wood did frame A roofless temple. 1871 R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 276 Thro' column'd porch and chambers sumptuous hieing. |
2. Fashioned into or like a column, columnar.
| 1871 J. Miller Songs Italy (1878) 15 On the smooth gray base of yon columned stone. 1888 Athenæum 12 May 597/1 A..candlestick containing one of these columned candles. |
3. Divided into, printed or written in, columns.
| 1821 J. Baillie Met. Leg., Lady G. B. xlix. 15 Column'd scrolls of ancient date. 1861 W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 76 A large double-columned book of nearly five hundred pages. |