Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
octastyle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Arch.) Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is
octostyle , but most large Greek temples arehexastyle . Seehexastyle .
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- adjective architecture A
temple orportico witheight columns in front.
Etymologies
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octo- + Ancient Greek στῦλος (stylos, "pillar").
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Examples
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It was, moreover, immeasurably superior to the classic attempts of the architects of the middle Georgian period, who, carried away by the enthusiasm awakened by the perusal of the newly-published "Antiquities" of Stuart and Revett, attempted to adapt Doric porticos, hexastyle, octostyle, etc., to modern domestic architecture.
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It was a peripteral octostyle, of the Doric order, with seventeen columns on the sides, each six feet two inches in diameter at the base, and thirty-four feet in height, elevated on three steps.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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