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The science of architecture.

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  • ARCHITECTURE
    1. The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin. 3.
  • SCIENCE
    1. Knowledge; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. If we conceive God's or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all
  • GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE
    British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.
  • PRESCIENCE
    Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
  • OMNISCIENCE
    The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.
  • UNSCIENCE
    Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.
  • CONSCIENCE
    consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,
  • CONSCIENCED
    Having a conscience. "Soft-conscienced men." Shak.
  • NESCIENCE
    Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.
  • CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
    A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system
  • INSCIENCE
    Want of knowledge; ignorance.
  • CONSCIENCELESS
    Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous. Conscienceless and wicked patrons. Hookre.
  • NEOCLASSIC ARCHITECTURE
    All that architecture which, since the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.

 

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