Definition of Imbrecated
{ Im"bri*cate (?), Im"bri*ca`ted (?), }
a. [L. imbricatus, p. p. of imbricare
to cover with tiles, to form like a gutter tile, fr. imbrex,
-icis, a hollow tile, gutter tile, fr. imber rain.]
1. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter
tile.
2. Lying over each other in regular order, so
as to "break joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on
the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of
fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in
æstivation.
3. In decorative art: Having scales lapping
one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an
imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined
*1965: He stopped speaking for a moment, like a man walking who comes to a brink; perhaps it was an artful pause, but it made the stars, the night, seem to wait, as if story, narration, history, lay imbricated in the nature of things; and the cosmos was for the story, not the story for the cosmos. — John Fowles, The Magus
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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