Definition of Systyle

1. a. Having a space equal to two diameters or four modules between two columns; -- said of a portico or building. See Intercolumniation.

Definition of Systyle

1. a building with intercolumniation of two diameters [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Systyle

systems design
systems engineering
systems program
systems science
systems sciences
systems software
systems theory
systemwide
systole
systoles
systolic
systolic blood pressure
systolic murmur
systolic pressure
systray
systyle (current term)
systyles
sythe
sythes
syver
syvers
syzygal
syzygetic
syzygial
syzygic
syzygies
szaibelyite
szaskaite
szenicsite

Literary usage of Systyle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture by John Weale (1850)
"... in the manner already described, at intervals which are determined by the species of temple intended to be built, whether pyc- nostyle, systyle, ..."

2. ... An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences, Comprising the by Albert Gallatin Mackey, Edward L. Hawkins, William James Hughan (1912)
"He may or he may not afterward fabricate a Rite. But the Rite would be only a consequence, and not a necessary one, of the system. systyle. ..."

3. The American Vignola by William Robert Ware, Vignola (1904)
"The ancients thought that even the systyle columns, ... the columns are small, since otherwise it might be difficult to get between them, and the systyle, ..."

4. A Naval and Military Technical Dictionary of the French Language: In Two by Robert Burn (1870)
"... systyle. T small tool used in foundries, of which ' the larger branch forms the handle, and the smaller to measure the mean thickness of shells; ..."

5. I.C.S. Reference Library: A Series of Textbooks Prepared for the Students of by International Correspondence Schools (1909)
"... one diameter (that is, two and one-fourth diameters on centers, instead of two), to avoid crowding. The ancients thought that even the systyle columns, ..."

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