granulated, ppl. a.
(ˈgrænjʊleɪtɪd)
[f. granulate v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb.
1. a. Of metals, sugar, gunpowder, etc.: Formed into granules. b. Consisting of granules, or grainlike bodies.
| 1694 Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1715) 427/1 Refined granulated Silver. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Corn setting Engine, A rich compost..such as dry or granulated pigeon's dung. 1806 J. Galpine Brit. Bot. 55 Fruit granulated. 1814 Sporting Mag. XLIV. 151 A quantity of granulated powder. 1834 M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sci. xxxvii. (1849) 434 Many [nebulæ] have a granulated appearance. 1830–7 MacGillivray Withering's Brit. Plants (ed. 4) 7 A Granulated Root consists of numerous small bulbs or scales strung together. 1842 Parnell Chem. Anal. (1845) 3 Prepared by boiling granulated tin..with concentrated hydrochloric acid. 1853 A. Soyer Pantroph. 217 There are two sorts of caviar: granulated caviar, and sack caviar. 1859 R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geogr. Soc. XXIX. 189 The latter [sugar] is generally made of granulated honey. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., Granulated-steel. Melted pig-iron is scattered by a wheel into a cistern of water, and thus reduced to fragments. These are imbedded in powdered hematite or sparry iron ore, and subjected to furnace heat. 1896 Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 391 Granulated malt extract dissolved in milk constitutes a grateful variety of readily digestible food. |
2. Having the surface raised in granules or small prominences. granulated glass, a kind of roughened glass used in stained windows.
| 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 140 The one plain and smooth, the other granulated on the out-side. 1758 Descript. Thames 216 The Turbot has a rough granulated Skin full of exceeding small Prickles. 1802 Paley Nat. Theol. v. (ed. 2) 72 It would be too much to assert that the skin of the dog fish was made rough and granulated on purpose for the polishing of wood. 1821 Craig Lect. Drawing iv. 200 Chisseled..to represent..the granulated surface of the human skin. 1863 Berkeley Brit. Mosses iii. 15 In some genera the walls of the cells..are strongly granulated. 1877 W. Thomson Voy. Challenger I. iv. 256 The surface of the carapace is granulated, not spiny. 1877 W. Jones Finger-ring 61 The whole is overlaid with funiform wire ornaments and granulated work. 1894 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. XLI. 28 A granular-surfaced or granulated paper. |
b. Having the appearance of being raised in granules; mottled.
| 1885 A. M. Clerke Pop. Hist. Astron. 210 The term ‘granulated’, suggested by Dawes in 1864, best describes the mottled aspect of the solar disc. |
3. Path. Characterized by the presence of granulations or small grain-like bodies; = granular a.
| 1835–6 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 426/2 A man who was found on post-mortem examination to have granulated kidneys. 1896 Daily News 3 Apr. 5/6 The astounding statement that ‘granulated ophthalmia is chiefly a pauper disease’. |