a. [f. ZONE sb. or v. + -ED.]
† 1. Located in a zone or region of the celestial sphere: = ZONIC a. Obs. rare–1.
1662. Stanley, Hist. Chaldaick Philos., 4. Or else by fiery Zone, he means the Seat of the zoned Deities just above the Empyreal or Corporeal Heaven.
2. Wearing a zone or girdle. Hence, virgin, chaste.
1718. Pope, Odyss., XXIII. 142. Fair zoned damsels.
1829. Lytton, Devereux, II. ix. A zoned and untainted Innocence.
3. Characterized by or arranged (naturally) in zones, rings, or bands.
1794. R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., I. 435. The zoned or tabulated form of the onyx.
1805–17. R. Jameson, Char. Min. (ed. 3), 213. Zoned (zonaire), when a row of facets is arranged around the middle part, thus forming a kind of zone or girdle. Example, Zoned calcareous-spar.
1845. G. Dodd, Brit. Manuf., Ser. IV. 200. As a fifth source of variety [in wood] may be mentioned eyes, zoned spots, and curls.
b. Marked with zones, circles, or bands of color.
1792. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 2), III. 433. Auricularia ferruginea,… zoned above.
1805. Shaw, Nat. Misc., XVI. pl. 657. The Zoned Parrot.
1849. W. H. Harvey, Brit. Mar. Algæ, 121. Zoned tetraspores exist in Rhod[ymenia] ciliata.
1874. Birch, 1st and 2nd Egypt. Rooms B. Mus., 31. With side handles of zoned alabaster.
4. Arranged according to zones or definite regions.
1795. Herschel, in Phil. Trans., LXXXV. 384. A zoned catalogue of the stars.
1890. Agnes M. Clerke, Syst. Stars, v. 80. The spectra of the great nebulæ, like those of the ‘zoned’ stars, must be considered as integrating the results of emanations taking their rise under notably diverse circumstances.
