Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to architecture or design.
- adj. Having qualities, such as design and structure, that are characteristic of architecture: a work of art forming an architectonic whole.
- adj. Philosophy Of or relating to the scientific systematization of knowledge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to architecture; hence, pertaining or relating to construction or design of any kind.
- Skilled in architecture; expert in designing or constructing.
- Relating to the construction of a complete and scientifically arranged theory or system of doctrine.
- Having the same relation to something as that of an architect to his work; designing; controlling; governing; directive.
- n. The science of architecture. Also architectonics.
- n. In logic, the art of constructing systems.
Wiktionary
- adj. relating to, or characteristic of architecture, design and construction
- adj. relating to the scientific systematization of the totality of knowledge
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive.
- adj. Relating to the systemizing of knowledge.
- n. The science of architecture.
- n. The act of arranging knowledge into a system.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or pertaining to construction or architecture
Etymologies
- Latin architectonicus, architectural, from Greek arkhitektonikos, from arkhitektōn, architect; see architect. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“By the term architectonic I mean the art of constructing a system.”
“Poetry tends to open in architectonic forms, there arise the meters, the strophes, the so-called fixed forms.”
“Penny Yassour designed condensed sculptural elements that recalled architectonic bodies, or mazes positioned on the ground to create a kind of industrial space that she described as mental maps.”
“If any cuisine may be described as architectonic, it must surely be the French.”
“There may perhaps be allowed to be a certain want of "architectonic" in him.”
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
“The hi-tech visions appear as fully executed architectonic meditations, linking architecture with landscape and making ground-breaking technology an important component of the program.”
“Bob Dylan has this majestic, tremendous, architectonic ability to make a song have this gigantic scope.”
“The architecture allows for structuring, for an architectonic approach to how one deals with narrative visually in space, rather than just through time.”
“The relative simplicity of the style, combined with its ability to incorporate in some abstracted manner more traditional architectonic elements -- Wagner's work incorporates clear if modified references to everything from Byzantine to Baroque -- renders it particularly useful for modern church-building, especially when budgets are a concern; there is less of the risk of the finished product appearing, in some sense, undercooked, when key decorative elements are removed due to monetary constraints.”
“The synonyms architectural and western are almost always used instead of architectonic and occidental. other examples being petroleum (excepting technical use and OPEC) and milliard.”
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