vaulted, ppl. a.
(ˈvɔːltɪd)
[f. vault n.1 or v.1]
1. Having the form of a vault; arched or rounded. † a. Of the chin. Obs.—1
| a 1533 Ld. Berners Huon cxlvi. 549 Her skynne was as whyte as y⊇ floure in the mede,..her throte smoth and clere, her chyne vauted [printed vaunted; Fr. voltis]. |
b. Of a roof or ceiling, etc.
| 1552 Huloet, Vaulted rowffe, testudinatum tectum. 1579–80 North Plutarch, Lycurgus (1895) I. 126 The fayer embowed or vawted roofes, or..fretised seelings. 1635 Swan Spec. M. iv. §1 (1643) 54 The world being mans house, the Firmament is as the vaulted roof of it. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 536 Now to the Court arriv'd, th' admiring Son Beholds the vaulted Roofs of Pory Stone. 1703 Rowe Ulysses iii. i, Raging Mirth With peals of Clamour shakes the vaulted Roof. 1789 Smyth tr. Aldrich's Archit. (1818) 115 Terms applied without distinction to all vaulted ceilings whatever. 1844 A. P. de Lisle in E. Purcell Life (1900) I. vii. 122 It contains fine stained glass, and a vaulted ceiling painted with semi-Gothick patterns. 1879 Dixon Windsor III. xii. 109 A vaulted arch supported an upper chamber. |
c. Of the sky. (
Cf. vault n.1 1 c.)
| c 1590 Montgomerie Sonnets lvi, Vnderneth the heuinly vauted round. 1595 Spenser Col. Clout 611 The fume..mounts fro thence In rolling globes vp to the vauted skies. 1611 Shakes. Cymb. i. vi. 33 Hath Nature giuen them eyes To see this vaulted Arch, and the rich Crop Of Sea and Land? 1700 Dryden Pal. & Arc. iii. 524 The vaulted Firmament With loud Acclaims, and vast Applause is rent. a 1763 Shenstone Elegies vi. 26 Pale Cynthia mounts the vaulted sky. 1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 97 A temple, one not made with hands, The vaulted firmament. 1871 B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. ii. 44 Lost in the vaulted azure The lark sends down his flickering lay. |
d. In miscellaneous uses.
| 1681 Grew Musæum i. vi. i. 140 The Vaulted-Limpet. Patella concamerata. 1793 Martyn Lang. Bot. s.v., Vaulted, fornicatus; arched. 1796 Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 514 Bloss[om] upper lip vaulted. 1828 Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 47 Umbilicus large, armed with small vaulted scales. 1842 Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 47 Wild horses have larger heads than domestic horses, with more vaulted fore⁓heads. 1858 Birch Anc. Pottery II. 75 A vase..having a vaulted cover. 1870 Rolleston Anim. Life p. lvi, 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 II. 243 The artificiall baines and vaulted stouves and hot houses, which then were newly come vp. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Isl. v. li, This vaulted Tower's half built of massie stone. 1687 A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 26 In this Court there are Lodging-rooms under a vaulted Gallery that runs all round it. 1717 Berkeley Jrnl. Tour Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 520 Below stairs we saw several vaulted chambers. 1794 Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho 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 II. 320 The heavy winter rains supply the vaulted cisterns. a 1878 Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) I. 247 Viollet le Duc says, the design for a vaulted building has to be commenced at the top and worked downwards. |
| transf. 1730–46 Thomson Autumn 78 To dig the mineral from the vaulted earth. 1820 Shelley Prometh. Unb. ii. v. 104 A paradise of vaulted bowers. 1878 B. Taylor Deukalion 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 Life xx. (1905) 450 Very few could stand this vaulted life of mine. |
Hence
ˈvaultedly adv.| 1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 127 The shell round it being vaultedly convex. |