architectonic

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The Architectonic of Pure Reason By the term architectonic I mean the art of constructing a system.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to architecture or design.
  2. adjective Having qualities, such as design and structure, that are characteristic of architecture: a work of art forming an architectonic whole.
  3. adjective Philosophy Of or relating to the scientific systematization of knowledge.

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  • For Balzac was truly architectonic, even if barbarous, though his constructions are often imaginary and his perspectives a blotted mystery. —  THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY MAITLAND
  • "The porch at the south entrance into the church (says he) is much more worthy of the spectator's attention, being highly enriched with architectonic ornaments; particularly two beautiful cul de lamps, which from the combination of a variety of spiral dressings, as they hang down from the vaulted roof, produce a very pleasing effect." —  A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One
  • And not only is the future architectonic, it is also an inspiration and refuge for our anxieties, defeats and inadequacy, his incompetency, how little he has achieved, realizes his inconsequence and insignificance, and he looks forward and sees triumph in tomorrow; he beholds the summit of the hill, and says, "There I shall stand victorious some future day." —  The Jericho Road
  • In poetry, as the most perfect and universal (or the totality of) art, uniting in itself the two contraries, the symbolic and the classical, the lyric is a repetition of the architectonic-musical, the epic, of the plastic-pictorial, the drama, the union of the lyric and the epic 2) Philosophy of Religion_.--The withdrawal from outer sensibility into the inner spirit, begun in romantic art, especially in poetry, is completed in religion. —  History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
  • The Architectonic of Pure Reason By the term architectonic I mean the art of constructing a system. —  The Critique of Pure Reason
 

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  1. Latin architectonicus, architectural, from Greek arkhitektonikos, from arkhitektōn, architect; see architect.

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  1. = French architectonique, from Latin architectonicus, from Greek ἀρχιτεκτονικός, pertaining to architecture, feminine ἀρχιτεκτονική, n., architecture, from ἀρχιτέκτων, chief workman: see architect.
 

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/ɑrkɪtɛkˈtɑnɪk/
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