ppl. a. [f. COLUMN sb.]

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  1.  Furnished with columns, supported upon columns; pillared. (Chiefly poet.)

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1791.  E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., I. 132. The column’d pile ascends.

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1819.  Shelley, Rosal. & Helen, 107. A spring, O’er which the columned wood did frame A roofless temple.

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1871.  R. Ellis, Catullus, lxiv. 276. Thro’ column’d porch and chambers sumptuous hieing.

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  2.  Fashioned into or like a column, columnar.

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1871.  J. Miller, Songs Italy (1878), 15. On the smooth gray base of yon columned stone.

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1888.  Athenæum, 12 May, 597/1. A … candlestick containing one of these columned candles.

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  3.  Divided into, printed or written in, columns.

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1821.  Joanna Baillie, Met. Leg., Lady G. B., xlix. 15. Column’d scrolls of ancient date.

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1861.  W. F. Collier, Hist. Eng. Lit., 76. The Golden Legend—a large double-columned book of nearly five hundred pages, profusely illustrated with wood-cuts.

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