ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]

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  Furnished with a buttress or buttresses; strengthened, supported or stayed by a buttress.

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1813.  Scott, Trierm., III. iii. Fain would he hope the rocks ’gan change To buttress’d walls their shapeless range.

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1853.  Ruskin, Stones Ven., II. vi. § 77. 206. The … shadowed niche, and buttressed pier.

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1860.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., V. IX. ix. 296. A religion towering over all the city—many buttressed.

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1881.  Geikie, in Macm. Mag., XLIV. 238. The isolated peaks and ranges of buttressed cliffs.

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1886.  G. Allen, Life Darwin, x. 170. A … powerfully buttressed theory.

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