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Definition of Columniation
1. Noun. (architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure.
Definition of Columniation
1. n. The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.
Definition of Columniation
1. Noun. (architecture) An arrangement or grouping of columns ¹
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Definition of Columniation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Columniation
Literary usage of Columniation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rudiments of Architecture and Building for the Use of Architects by John Bullock (1865)
"As exhibited in their temples, the system of columniation practised by the ancients
... Before we enter upon the subject of inter-columniation, it will be ..."
2. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1846)
"Nevertheless that and columniation are two such decidedly distinct systems, that
buildings now classed together as belonging to one general style might ..."
3. The Rudiments of Architecture and Building: For the Use of Architects edited by John Bullock (1855)
"Let it be whatever it may, as expressed in terms of the diameter of the columns,
inter-columniation should always deserve the name of ..."
4. On the General Theory of Proportion in Architectural Design and Its by William Watkiss Lloyd (1863)
"give columniation. The seven segments of the step correspond to seven segments
of the architrave, each equal, in a general way, to the breadth of two ..."
5. Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture by John Weale (1850)
"Fenes- tration and columniation are so far antagonistic and irreconcileable, that
fenestration either interferes with the effect aimed at by ..."
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