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Definition of Octangular
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or shaped like an octagon.
Definition of Octangular
1. a. Having eight angles; eight-angled.
Definition of Octangular
1. Adjective. Octagonal, with eight angles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octangular
Literary usage of Octangular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"... by Hondius in Speed, 1611; of the second, which was probably octangular, by
Visscher in 1616. Both these representations are reproduced in Mr. Halliwell ..."
2. A Topographical History of Surrey by Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton, Gideon Algernon Mantell, John Hodgkinson, Charles Savile Roundell (1844)
"... Arnott's principle of slow combustion: one of them is of a well-proportioned
octangular form, and wrought after a handsome design in the Gothic style. ..."
3. Two Hundred and Nine Days: Or, The Journal of a Traveller on the Continent by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1827)
"The advocates wear gowns, and a little black octangular cap, called toque; it is
convenient to have a covering for the head, as a defence against cold ..."
4. The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the End of the Year 1700 by Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones, John Eames, John Martyn (1716)
"... and octangular Т'Лап are much fewer in Number than ... octangular ..."
5. Excursions in the County of Surrey: Comprising Brief Historical and by Thomas Cromwell (1821)
"The pillars of the interior are some of them round, and in the massy Saxon style;
most of the others octangular, with small cluster columns added at tlte ..."
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