cancellated

English

Adjective

cancellated (comparative more cancellated, superlative most cancellated)

  1. Marked with cross lines; crossbarred.
    • 1661 April 20 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “April 10th, 1661”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume II, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, footnote 3, page 6:
      This chamber, he states, "is inclosed with three doors, the inner cancellated, the middle, which is very thick, lined with skins like parchment, and driven full of nails.["]
    • 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
      'Tis cancellated with little squares on the Margin; on the top of the back, sexangularly
  2. (anatomy) Open or spongy, like certain porous bones.
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