a. [f. VISTA sb.]

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  1.  Placed or arranged so as to make a vista or avenue.

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1835.  Lytton, Rienzi, V. iii. They … extending far down the vistaed streets … awaited the orders of their leader. Ibid. (1862), Str. Story, v. I did not pass through the lane … but up the broad causeway, with vistaed gas-lamps.

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1882.  J. Hawthorne, Fort. Fool, xxxviii. She moved slowly and saunteringly along the vistaed aisle.

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  2.  Provided with vistas.

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1862.  Calverley, Verses & Transl., Dover to Munich, 105. Lawns, and vista’d gardens, Statues white, and cool arcades.

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1881.  Mrs. C. Praed, Policy & P., II. 258. They would ride on and on through the many vistaed forest.

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  3.  fig. Seen as it were in prospect by the imagination.

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1849.  [W. M. W. Call], Reverberations, II. 85.

                        Gazing steadfastly
Thro’ vistaed centuries.

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a. 1851.  Moir, Poems (1852), I. 64.

        Victorious over death, to her appear
The vista’d joys of Heaven’s eternal year.

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1893.  F. Thompson, Poems, Hound of Heaven, 6. Up vistaed hopes I sped.

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