Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having eight frontal columns in the portico, as in some Greek temples.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In architecture, having, or characterized by the presence of, eight columns, as a portico or a building having eight columns in front.
- noun A building having eight columns in front; especially, a Greek or Roman temple having that number of columns in the front row of the portico.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
octostyle .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective architecture Having
eight columns in the front row (of a portico etc.)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A third method of designating or distinguishing the temples is by the number of columns in front, thus temples are called tetrastyle, hexastyle, octastyle, that is having five, six, or eight columns.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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If an octastyle is to be constructed, let the front be divided into twenty-four parts and a half.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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Then, whether the temple is to be tetrastyle, hexastyle, or octastyle, let one of these parts be taken, and it will be the module.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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These rules for symmetry were established by Hermogenes, who was also the first to devise the principle of the pseudodipteral octastyle.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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The dipteral also is octastyle in both front and rear porticoes, but it has two rows of columns all round the temple, like the temple of
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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There is no example of this sort in Rome, but in Athens there is the octastyle in the precinct of the Olympian.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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It was an octastyle peripteral temple, with seventeen columns on the side, and measured 220 by 100 feet on the top of the stylobate.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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It was peripteral, octastyle; that is, surrounded with a portico of columns, with eight to each façade.
Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) Shearjashub Spooner 1834
qms commented on the word octastyle
There is the architectural application:
Let's sit ourselves down and talk a while
Of how may a portico beguile,
And what are the graces
Attending such spaces
And tally the virtues of octastyle.
But also this:
The she-squid bestows a shy smile
Permitting an amorous trial,
Inviting his charms
And myriad arms
For loving that's done octastyle.
November 29, 2016