Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See architrave.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In ancient architecture, the lower member of the entablature, properly of a Greek order, also known by its Roman name, the architrave: a massive horizontal beam of stone or wood resting immediately upon the abaci of the capitals of a range of columns or pillars. See cut under entablature.
Wiktionary
- n. architecture, historical A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; an architrave.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anc. Arch.) A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called
architrave .
Etymologies
- Latin epistylium, Ancient Greek: compare French épistyle. (Wiktionary)
- Latin epistȳlium, from Greek epistūlion : epi-, epi- + stūlos, pillar. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The frieze, where of old would prance an exuberant processional of gods, is, in this case, bare of decoration, but upon the epistyle is written in simple, stern letters the word, "EUSTON.”
“The capital is made up of a circular cushion or _echinus_ adorned with fine grooves called _annulæ_, and a plain square _abacus_ or cap Upon this rests a plain architrave or _epistyle_, with a narrow fillet, the _tænia_, running along its upper edge.”
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
“The frieze, where of old would prance an exuberant processional of gods, is, in this case, bare of decoration, but upon the epistyle is written in simple, stern letters the word "EUSTON.”
“a fountain crowned by a Bacchic Kantharos, and wrote on its epistyle a brilliant epigram, inviting the faithful to purify themselves bodily and spiritually, before presenting themselves to the apostle within.”
“n. - beam resting directly on columns; epistyle; moulding at head and sides of window or doorway.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘epistyle’.
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Columniation
A list of terms pertaining to columns employed in architecture.
hypostyle, peristyle, columniation, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, base, shaft, capital, entablature, architrave, frieze and 78 more...
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Mat8iou's interesting words
Words I've come across & want to remember.
bloviation, elginism, panegyric, infandous, boke, pangram, quine, pareto principle, panopticon, snib, escutcheon, bokeh and 129 more...
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Words of Standing
steed, stool, estancia, stage, stance, staunch, stanch, stanchion, stanza, stative, stator, stay and 180 more...
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Style
A family of terms containing the string *styl that suggest a sense of something columnar or pointed.
Words containing styl- denoting a mode of expression or fashion are excluded from t...peristylar, orthostyle, stylus, styloglossal, stylate, stylomandibular, stylion, styliferous, styloglossus, stylomaxillary, stylopharyngeus, styletiform and 32 more...
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near and dear words
epi- opi- where it is at; also connected virtually or otherwise
epitome, epiphany, episcopal, opisthobranch, opisthognathous, oblast, duopsony, opsonin, epistemolgy, epistle, epidote, epidermis and 44 more...
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