a. [f. L. cæspitīci-us made of turf + -OUS.] Made of turf, turfen.
1780. R. Gough, British Topography II. 560 (T.). Height and breadth of the cespititious ramparts.
1867. Burton, Hist. Scot. (1873), I. i. 33. It is called a cespititious wall. Ibid. (1880), Reign Q. Anne, III. xiv. 50. Redoubts or bastions, called ‘cæspititious,’ as made out of the materials available on the spot.
