radiated, ppl. a.
(ˈreɪdɪeɪtɪd)
[f. prec.]
1. Furnished with rays; made or depicted with rays issuing from it, esp. radiated crown.
| 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriot. (1736) 60 By the Radiated-Crown, this Piece should be coined after his Death and Consecration. a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Suffolk iii. (1662) 57 A Radiated Circle as particular to Canonized Saints. 1702 Addison Dial. Medals Wks. 1721 I. 466 The radiated head of the Phœnix. 1864 Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xxi. (ed. 3) 368 Az., three clouds, radiated. 1876 Humphreys Coin-coll. Man. x. 117 The radiated crown is found on the coins of this prince. |
2. Having or consisting of parts arranged like rays or radii.
Cf. radiate a. 1.
| 1775 J. Jenkinson Brit. Plants Gloss., Radiated-flowers, are such as have several semifloscules set round a disk in form of a radiant star. 1796 Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 292 A radiated ore so light as to float in water. 1807 T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 269 It hardens, and a radiated crust forms on its surface. 1845 Whewell Indic. Creator 68 The symmetry of the radiated zoophytes. 1876 tr. Haeckel's Hist. Creat. I. iii. 53 The same holds good..in Molluscous and Radiated animals. |
b. spec. in
Ornith. of birds having plumage or markings thus arranged. Also
radiated mole (see
quot. 1781).
| 1781 Pennant Quadrupeds 488 Radiated Mole. [Ibid. 486 Nose long; the edges beset with radiated tendrils.] 1815 Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 281 Radiated Grosbeak (Loxia lineata). 1821 Latham Gen. Hist. Birds I. 222 Radiated Falcon. 1822 Ibid. IV. 256 Radiated Creeper. 1848 Gould Birds Australia I. Pl. 16 Astur Radiatus, Radiated Goshawk. |
3. Arranged like rays.
= radiate a. 2.
| 1748 Hartley Observ. Man i. i. §3. 100 The radiated Fibres of the Uvea. 1845 Darwin Voy. Nat. i. (1873) 6 Groups of beautifully radiated fibres resembling arragonite. |
| Comb. 1870 Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 2) 147 The veins..diverge from each other..as in the radiated-veined variety of reticulated leaves. |
4. Characterized by radiation.
= radial a. 4.
| 1798 W. Blair Soldier's Friend 54 Bell tents, in which the men lie in a radiated manner. 1830 Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 205 The same combination of concentric and radiated structure. 1848 Carpenter Anim. Phys. 64 Arranged in a circular manner around a common centre, so as to present a radiated or rayed aspect. |