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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An impost taking the form of a separate member with a definite character, as in Byzantine and early Italian architecture where it rises like a separate capital above the capital proper of a column. The term is also used for the two blocks from which an arch in a continuous wall seems to arise and upon which it bears.
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The impost-block was almost universal, except where its use was rendered unnecessary by giving to the capital itself the massive pyramidal form required to receive properly the spring of the arch or vault.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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