a. [f. prec. + -ED.] a. = ARCUATE ppl. a. b. spec. in Arch. Characterized by arches.
1766. Pennant, Zool., IV. 80. A very thick, coarse, opaque shell … bending inward on one side, or arcuated.
1860. Muir, Pagan or Chr., 21. The leap from Trabeated to Arcuated Structure.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vi. 318. A transverse, slightly arcuated cardiac plate.
1879. G. Scott, Lect. Archit., I. 18. Arcuated architecture was perfected by the Mediaeval builders.
