ppl. a. [f. CANTON sb. and v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Formed or divided into cantons.

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1611.  Cotgr., Cantonné, cantonned, or cantonnized; seuered from the rest of their fellows, and fortified, or quartered apart.

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a. 1649.  Drumm. of Hawth., Σκιαμαχια, Wks. (1711), 195. Conform to the Government of a Republick and Cantoned Towns?

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1869.  A. W. Ward, trans. Curtius’ Hist. Greece, II. III. i. 259. The cantoned associations of Arcadia.

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  2.  Quartered in cantonments.

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1790.  Beatson, Nav. & Mil. Mem., I. 169. The army cantoned in the neighbourhood of Dunkirk.

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1877.  Clery, Min. Tact., ii. 20. Troops cantoned in and about the town.

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  3.  Arch. (See quot.)

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1727–51.  Chambers, Cycl.

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1876.  Gwilt, Arch. Gloss., Cantoned building, one whose angles are decorated with columns, pilasters, rustic groins, or anything projecting beyond the naked of the wall.

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  4.  Her. See CANTON v. 6.

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