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Definition of Peripteral
1. Adjective. Having columns on all sides.
Definition of Peripteral
1. a. Having columns on all sides; -- said of an edifice. See Apteral.
Definition of Peripteral
1. Adjective. (architecture) Surrounded by a single row of columns ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Peripteral
Literary usage of Peripteral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Ancient Art by Franz von Reber, Joseph Thacher Clarke (1902)
"The peripteral temple plan is a similar advance, which, not fitted for the
requirements and tendencies of Egyptian architecture, lay dormant for centuries. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The favourite type of Greek temple was that known as hexa- style peripteral, ...
pseudo-peripteral temple, of which the elevation is given in fig. ..."
3. Ancient Athens: Its History, Topography, and Remains by Thomas Henry Dyer (1873)
"The celia of the temple of Zeus at Agrigentum was only a little smaller than the
whole of the Athenian temple ; but it was not peripteral, the columns being ..."
4. Foreign Topography; Or, An Encyclopedick Account, Alphabetically Arranged by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (1828)
"The second polygonal style, 1, PSEUDO-peripteral. ... and peripteral, 7 ; a
peculiar temple of this kind, 186*. See TEMPLES. ..."
5. Aerodynamics: Constituting the First Volume of a Complete Work on Aerial Flight by Frederick William Lanchester (1907)
"... be specially created at birth, and would after death continue to pervade the
world for all time like a disembodied spirit. § 126. peripteral Motion in a ..."
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