Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or resembling plants of the genus Acanthus. In architecture, ornamented with acanthus-leaves.
- noun In architecture, a fillet or other molding ornamented with the acanthus-leaf. Buchanan, Dict. Sci. See cut under
Acanthus . - In ichthyology, spine-like; bearing spines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.
Etymologies
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From Latin acanthinus, from acanthus + English -ine ("relating to").
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Man and morality, however, disappearing at intervals, the acanthine capitals have a kind of later Venetian beauty about them, as the Venetian birds also, the conventional peacocks, or birds wholly of fantasy, amid the long fantastic foliage.
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866
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