Meanings
- not comparableThat has a handle or a part that resembles a handle.
The decoration of this feature is singular for it displays in relief an ansate, oval dish complete with offerings.
1973, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquities, page 1242 more examples
1990, John Irwin Jones, Chapter 15: Comparative Development of Somatic Sensory Cortex, Edward G. Jones, Alan Peters (editors), Cerebral Cortex, Volume 8B: Comparative Structure and Evolution of Cerebral Cortex, Part 2, page 407, In cats, the ansate sulcus forms a posterior boundary for much of SI, and the coronal sulcus functions as a jugular sulcus demarcating forelimb and face projections.
Only two British tablets are ansate: these are Caerleon (Text-fig. 5), which (to quote the editors) “has two nail-holes for attachment”, and Bath 15, which was nonetheless folded up and deposited in the hot spring.
2010, Roger Tomlin, “Chapter Seven: Cursing a Thief in Iberia and Britain”, in Richard Lindsay Gordon, Francisco Marco Simón, editors, Magical Practice in the Latin West: Papers from the International Conference held at the University of Zaragoza 30 Sept. - 1 Oct. 2005, page 249Synonyms: ansated
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveThat has a handle or a part that resembles a handle.
Origin
- Latinansātus“handled; having handles”
- Englishansate
Learned borrowing from Latin ansātus (“handled; having handles”), from ansa (“handle”).
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