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Definition of Towered

1. a. Adorned or defended by towers.

Definition of Towered

1. Verb. (past of tower) ¹

2. Adjective. Equipped with a tower. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Towered

1. tower [v] - See also: tower

Lexicographical Neighbors of Towered

Literary usage of Towered

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and by James Balfour Paul (1893)
"Arg. a castle triple - towered sa. (3rd quarter), all within a bordure arg., ... MACLEOD OF THAT UK Az. on a mount in base a castle triple-towered without ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"By their incessant labour, a sacred edifice which towered above the imperial palace, and had long excited the indignation and envy of the Gentiles, ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"... flanked the highway towered overhead, and well-nigh shut out the remnant of the dying day. Night dropped her black pall over the earth as he entered the ..."

4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"FULL thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail. It cost a watch to steer her, and a week to shorten sail; But. spite all modern notions, ..."

5. The South in the Building of the Nation: A History of the Southern States by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1909)
"His moral character towered head and shoulders above his other giant powers. There has been but one whose diligent, alert and all-sufficient discharge of ..."

6. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Musaeus, midmost of a numerous throng, Who towered o'er his peers a shoulder higher: " O spirits blest! O venerable bard! " Declare what dwelling or what ..."

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