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Definition: ARAEOSYSTYLE

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. An alternative spelling for "Intercolumniation": The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts.[Websters]
2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb araeosystyly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(araeosystyly)		 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective araeosystyle.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Araeosystyle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)


Extended Definition: ARAEOSYSTYLE

Araeosystyle

Araeosystyle (Gr. αραιος, "widely spaced", and συστυλος, "with columns set close together"), an architectural term applied to a colonnade, in which the intercolumniation is alternately wide and narrow, as in the case of the western porch of St Paul's Cathedral and the east front of the Louvre by Perrault.

References

  • This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.


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