fasciate (or fashiate)

[Lat. fascia; Eng. adj. suff. -ate.] *1. Ord. Lang.: Banded or compacted together. 2. Bot.: The same as FASCIATED (q.v.). *fas'-çi-āte (or fash'-i-ate), v. t . [FASCIATE, a.] To bind together. fas-çi-at-ěd (or fash-i-at-ěd), pa. par. or a. [FASCIATE, v.] *A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: *1. Ord. Lang .: Banded or compacted together. "The arm not lying fasciated or wrapt up."- Browne : Garden of Cyrus , ch. ii. 2. Bot .: Applied to a stem having a thickened or flattened appearance, as seen in the Fir, Ash, ., arising from the union of several leaf-buds. "It appears as if formed by several peduncles united together so as to become a fasciated axis, as in the Cockscomb."-Balfour: Botany, § 327. 1785 I. Ordinary Language: 1. A small bundle, or packet. 2. A part of a book. "In the next fascicle you's ay that I maintain some things."-Dr. Mayne: Sermon at Oxford (1647), p. 19. II. Technically : 1. Anat .: The technical rendering of the Latin word fasciculus (q. v.). 2. Zool .: A small bundle. ( Owen .) 3. Bot .: A form of cyme in which the peduncles are short and the flowers closely approximated with a centrifugal expansion, as in some of the Pink tribe, Dianthus barbatus , .